Hack Attack : Dual Boot Leopard and Windows Vista

Here is a complete guide to get a Dual boot setup with Windows Vista and Leopard running side by side. Please note this is a complete tutorial and if followed exactly you should be running Leopard and Vista side by side without any problems.

Yes, this guide has taken over a month for me to write and I have tried this out every possible combination of hardware setup I could possibly test, and I can assure you that if followed correctly you can easily have Leopard and Vista in a dual boot setup.

Loads of readers have sent me emails, dropped comments on my previous guides on installing Leopard and here is the guide for all you guys who waited so long patiently.

Disclaimer : This Guide is for educational purposes only, I suggest you buy yourself a original Mac. Also please do not post links to the Torrent’s as they will be removed.

Well before we proceed with the guide, here is the stuff that you will need for a successful dual boot setup.

Vista Already installed on your Primary Hard Disk.

iATKOS v1.0 DVD. (Do not ask me where you can download this)

Windows Vista Boot DVD (Just incase something goes wrong)

Well now that you have everything ready, lets get started then. Please note this is going to take sometime so I suggest you have some Music playing near by and grab yourself a cup of coffee while you do this. Sit tight, here we go……….

Install Vista on the First Partition of your Hard Disk. I am not going to elaborate into How to install Windows, I hope everyone knows it. If you already have it installed then read on..

Right click on My Computer and Click on Manage. Select Disk Management. Now Create a new Volume for OSX by shrinking an existing volume. You need atleast 5GB of space and the new volume should show up as Unallocated.

Make sure that the partition shows up as Unallocated, else repeat the previous step.

Now restart the machine and boot into the Leopard DVD that you burned using the iATKOS v1.0 DVD Image.

Press F8 as the countdown begins and type -v at the prompt and hit enter.

You should see scrolling text on the screen now. If it stops anywhere then drop a comment and I’ll try to help you out.

After a while you should be looking at the Leopard Installer. Follow the instructions on Screen.

Once the Loading Bar vanishes Select Utilities -> Disk Utility .

Select the Volume you created previously and format it as MAC OSX Journaled Extended. Once the formatting is done the volume is ready for installation.

Now Close Disk Utility and Select Utilities -> Darwin Boot. Type Y at the prompt.

At the prompt when it asks for the Disk Number enter 0. For the Partition Number if your Leopard Partition is 2nd on the disk, then enter 2 and so on.

Accept the following prompts and you should see a success prompt saying that so many block of data were written successfully.

Now get back to the Leopard Install Screen. Choose the partition that you made in the beginning and follow the instructions on screen.

Please don’t select any patches etc during the installation, this is normally the reason for most failed installations. Just the plain install would do.

Once the Install is done, reboot with the DVD in the drive. Press F8 at Darwin Boot Loader and type -s and press enter.

Execute the following commands :

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0flag 1
quitreboot

Now before the PC restarts remove the DVD. At this point you should be able to boot into Vista normally.

Note: If you are unable to log into windows, because there is an error which says ‘winload.exe’ correupted.! Relax. Just insert the Windows VISTA boot DVD into the drive and restart. Click on ‘Repair computer’ once you are inside the DVD and it will automatically detect if a problem exists and suggest ‘Repair and Restart’. Press the same, and remove the DVD once the PC is about to restart. You should now be able to log in to vista without any problem.

Now that we have almost everything running fine, lets proceed with the dual boot setup.

Boot into Vista. Copy the chain0 file from the Leopard DVD to C:

Open the ‘Command prompt’ with ‘Elevated Admin’ privileges from the Start Menu.

In the first command type {current} as it is, literally..nothing else..just {current} with the brackets. In the 3rd command however, replace the {GUID} with the alphanumeric GUID you see in the enumerated list under MAC OS X. You can see this list on your terminal as soon as you type the 2nd command above.

Close the Command Prompt and Restart Vista.

You Should now be looking at a screen with two options to boot into Mac OSX or Vista.

Select Mac OSX to see if you can boot into it. You should see the familiar Darwin boot Loading screen with the timer going down. If you dont do anything, then it counts to zero and again shows the menu screen with Vista and MAC OSX options. Dont panic!

Again select MAC OS X, and now as the timer counts down, Press F8. You would see a list of partitions on your disk with their names. Select the partition with MAC OSX installed by using up/down arrows and press ENTER.

Voila!! your Mac should be booting up as you read this..

See it was that simple. No more HFS+ and Blinking Cursor errors. Just follow this guide step by step and you should be able to dual boot Windows Vista and Leopard in no time. If you have any questions just drop in a comment, I’ll reply at the earliest.

For Drivers and Patches I suggest you look at the InsanelyMac Forums. This guide would have been nearly impossible without :

Uphuck Forums

InsanelyMac Forums

OSX86 Wiki.

If you are looking to Install Leopard on an AMD based machine follow the instructions here to patch your iATKOS v1.0 Image. Special Thanks to I Am Nihilist

Thanks for the guide. I did this awhile ago and decided that i didn’t want Leopard anymore, so I deleted the leopard partition. When I start up there is still an option to either boot into Vista or leopard. Is there anyway to delete the leopard option?

How would you delete one of these boots if you accidently made a spelling mistake.

Also I can seem to get mine to work it comes back with this when I try to type the GUID:
The element data type specified is not recognized, or does not apply to the specified entry.
Run “bcdedit /?” for command line assistance.

OK, I got a chance to try this out last night. Thanks for the tutorial!!!

First I tried it out on my desktop. It started scrolling all the text and got to the part where it appeared to be looking for hard disks/partitions. Each line said something about waiting 100,000ms. This machine has a hardware SATA RAID-5 card at the moment and no regular IDE drive. I had setup an external USB drive with the unallocated space realizing that the RAID-5 card was probably not supported. I thought USB drives were supported?

I then tried my laptop (P4 3.x Ghz), 2GB RAM, etc. This got further. It went to a baby blue background after getting through the same steps that my desktop had jsut stopped on. Then it just sits there….I could leave it there for an hour or so and it is still just a baby blue background….nothing else.

Any ideas what I can do in either situation? I’d love to be able to run Leopard on one fo these machines.

I have ubuntz and xp on my laptop (ASUS G1S AS022G) I wanna keep both of them and install osx as a third os.

Is it possible ro insrall os x on this laptop and if this is possible is it possible to make a triboot. Os x ubuntu and xp.
if that works, what os do i have to install first? And how do i do the last fev steps on ubuntu or xp?

Hi, I’ve got meself a partition and SS3 processor, and can get as far as Darwin loading up – I type in “-v”, Darwin loads, comes up with about 7 lines of text, then the computer reboots rather than continuing to the leopard installation… any ideas?

So far I have prepared the partition, restarted the machine and booted into the Leopard iATKOS v1.0 DVD, I have pressed F8 and typed -v at the prompt.
My problem is that immediately after this step I see scrolling DOS style text which freezes up and never progresses. It displays the message:
“com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform” has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components:
use only one style.

Hi, I’ve got as far as Darwin loading up, but having typed in “-v”, rather than going to any further installation screen, it comes up with a list of 7 or so items, before restarting the computer. I’ve definitely got an SS3 processor and have partitioned the drive correctly (as far as i’m aware): is there anywhere else I’m likely to be going wrong?

Thanks for the guide. I’m downloading right now, but have a question before I start installing… I have 2 hard drives in my laptop. My C drive which houses Vista and all my programs… And then a secondary D drive which is usually just for backups, images, music, etc…

Am I able to parition part of the D drive for the OSX install and boot from there? Or must it be on the same hard drive as Vista?

I would like to update that eventually I did get it to work past the ‘Still waiting for root device’ by plugging both the HD and the DVD-ROM into the same SATA (0) as master and slave, previously they had been hooked into different ones (0 and 2)

Hi all..
when I type -v and it starts to scroll texts it stops after “mac framework succesfully initialized”, when I wait more a text appears writing “Still waiting for root device” and it repeats that. Can any one help me please?

Everything has worked smoothly so far, and i didnt partition my drive instead, i installed my own harddrive to my computer. The mac install went fine and i created the boot loader but when i choose mac os x, it gives me “chain booting error” What do i do?

Hi,
I got a DVD from my friend, but dont know its iATKOS v1.0 or not.
whenever i try to install MAC (only for testing), the screen with the apple sign comes and after a little while, a small sign with a circle and a cross on it pop ups. after that, it just goes on like that.

i tried pressing F8 and then -v, and may be the error i got was ” still waiting for the host file” or something like that.

Took 2 days for the download, and I get file errors transferring the iATKOS to the DVD. Must have been a corrupt download. Oh Well. Looks like a lot of issues here in getting Leopard running on a PC. I guess if I plan on doing this, I will be buying a copy of Leopard, but researching further the woes of putting leopard on an Intel based machine. And checking elsewhere whether I can even do this in a RAID 0 set up. I might not even be able to do this at all.

Yes you could dual boot XP and Leopard without much trouble. Instead of using the command line to enter the stuff using bcedit, all you need to do is edit the “boot.ini” file to add a new bootloader entry and then dual boot XP and Leopard.

For more details on how to edit the “boot.ini” file please search google, meanwhile I am planning to write a guide for Windows XP as well..

Ok I have done everything and the dual boot is perfectly running on my dell. Now the only problem is that it does not accept my laptop as a laptop but a desk top meaning I have no battery icon and no power management for a battery. Also if I use mail with google IMAP it doesn’t give me any of the options of viewing my trash. If I load the cd instead of the dual boot way I get all my options running leopard with all the features including the battery icon running.

So my question is how do I get the boot off my computer to run the same way as the boot off the cd?

I couldn’t find the unallocated partition either, I just created a partition with no format and used the Disk Utility to format it to Mac OSX Journaled. Make sure it is the last partition on the drive or the utility will screw up everything afterwards. Vista CD was able to repair this for me but it takes a while and is a pain.

GIOVANNI I have the same situation here, when it is starting I just get a grey screen with an apple in the middle and the circle. If I wait for more minutos it seems to be doing something else, sometimes. One time I saw the welcome but extrematly slow. It seems that the CPU or HD is freezing.

So far I have prepared the partition, restarted the machine and booted into the Leopard iATKOS v1.0 DVD, I have pressed F8 and typed -v at the prompt.
My problem is that immediately after this step I see scrolling DOS style text which freezes up and never progresses. It displays the message:
���com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform��� has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components:
use only one style.

thank you fpr your great tutorial! But i have a problem: Everytime i insert the iATKOS DVD at boot and press anykey or press “F8″ and “-v” my PC (CPU-Z log: http://tinyurl.com/2nlxnz) restarts. Where is the problem? Teh first steps works without a problem… i hope you can help me.

Hi. I am working on a machine in which i would like to not have to make a new partition, but I do have an external USB hard drive. I know what different to to do when it asks for disk number, i would say 1 and it then wouldnt say the thing about the partition. But when it says:

Hi Karthik,
I had xp installed on harddisk 1 & I installed leopard on hard disk 2
The installation went smoothly
but when I reboot it, instead of either asking for boot option or directly booting in xp, the screen gets an apple logo and the moving circle and it gets stuck

I figured that if you use the later iATKOS v1.0 DVD, r2 or something…you have to install darwin boot manually, I did this, and I just added
c:\CHAIN0=”Mac OS X” to the boot.ini file, and now it works, before I installed darwin boot I got the “Chain boot error”, now i loads MAC OS X insteed.

I dont know if this is the right way to do it, but it is a way that work. I will probably reinstall everything when the new Dual boot Leopard and XP guide is done.

Now I just got all the non compatible hardware problems…But my DV2222 runs Leopard:)

Hi,
I did everything in the guide except the Darwin bootloader part.
But i chosed to customize and marked “Darwin bootloader” as an optional istallation file. Followed the rest of the guide and instead of doing “BCDEDIT” thing, I changed the boot.ini file to something like this:

Wow thanks for the tutorial. I have been running leopard great before this tutorial, but now it is easy to load leopard without the cd, but I have only one problem. Loading leopard off the cd gets me laptop controls, full use of Mail and chat, while booting off just the bootloader on the comp gets me to use leopard with less advantages such as no battery icon, no bluetooth unless i use -v at start up and less privelages in mail and chat.

So my question is how do I get the boot off my computer to run the same way as the boot off the cd?

Hi,
So i got the file iATKOS v1.0i and I make a partition on a hard drive in my computer (its actually the whole hard drive, i have 2) and I boot the cd from startup, press f8, and then type -v. Text starts scrolling and it stops at

I have Vista already installed…. I would like to try a tri or quad (!) boot with Vista-XP-Leopard-(and eventually Ubuntu 7.10). Do I ask too much? ^_^’
For a ‘simply’-tri-boot must I install all WindowsS before Leopard or can I try Leopard now and add XP later?
Thankyou!!!

The only problem I have is that the Installer doesn’t recognize/see the hard-drive in the drive utilities nor the installer(SATA WD hard drive).
Yet if I boot on a PC with a WD ATA drive, the drive is recognized as well as the partitions.

I have the “chain booting error” problem here too. The letter case for chain0 is different in the tutorial and the disk. I’ve tried changing the casing on the file renaming it from c:\CHAIN0 to c:\chain0, mac os still doesn’t boot.

“Select the Volume you created previously and format it as MAC OSX Journaled Extended. Once the formatting is done the volume is ready for installation.”

I CANT FIND THE UNALLOCATED VOLUME THAT I PREVIOUSLY CREATED, SO I CANT FORMAT IT. I LOGGED BACK INTO VISTA TO CHECK THE DISK MANAGER, AND IT SHOWS THAT I DO HAVE AN UNALLOCATED VOLUME THAT IS ABOUT 10 GIGS.

I get to the screen when you first load up the iATKOS dvd and type -v. It runs a few lines and then my computer just restarts. Im running windows vista 64, with 2 raided harddrives, a EVGA 680i mobo, intel core2 quad q6600 processor EVGA 8800 gts 640mb and 4 gigs of ram. Any ideas? I was thinking about trying it with less ram installed.

NOT TO BE FUNNY OR ANYTHING BUT I DONT BELIEVE THAT THIS WORKS….. THE AMOUNT OF TIMES I HAVE TRIED THIS ON DIFFERENT SYSTEMS AND HARDWARE CONFIGURATIONS AND STILL RUNNING THE BORING OLD WINDOWS VISTA. IT HAS ONLY ONCE GOT PAST THE DARWIN BOOT AND WHEN IT DID IT WAS SAYING I HAD NO MOTHERBOARD OR ANYTHING I REALISE THIS IS DUE TO COMPATABILLITY ISSUES, AND THEREFORE I WENT TO BUY ALL THE HARDWARE I NEED TO GET MY PC WITH A SPEC THAT COULD RUN MAC OS X. I WOULD LOVE TO RETRACT THIS STATEMENT IF ANYONE COULD EITHER TELL ME WHERE IM GOING WRONG OR HELP ME TO FIX THE RECCURRING PROBLEM.

Wow guy are pretty smart. Knowing how to make unallocated space and all that. But genius, you have to create a partition from that unallocated space. Duh! That is the only way you will see a disk to format.

Again the same question I have asked twice: does any one know why loading from chain0 on my comp disables laptop options while loading from the cd gives me full control (meaning leopard knows I am using a laptop and not desktop)? Also is there a way to fix it?

Uhm I think that you just suck with computers or just plain retarded. I have done this countless number of times on my dell e1450 with many different configurations even tried updating to 10.5.2 which worked but I lost all my wifi, ethernet and sound.

Try installing with no additonal patches and make sure you go to utilitie and install the bootloader

OK, I’m downloading the hack copy. WOW is this slow! ETA is 8 weeks! Where are all the seeds? If no one has any help, I’m ready to go by OS X and try to install it on my machine. Maybe I just need to find out what specific hardware Apple is using so I can swap out a mini PCI card etc.

I tried a tri-boot…. well I installed fisrt Vista then XP and I got XP running -without letting me choose (no boot menu)-. Then I restart with !ATKOS v.1.0i (I downloaded the image where I read ‘use this, the others have problems….’ at the bottom of the web page) in dvd drive but…. well…. it does not even begin countdown: what’s the problem? I have several seconds of the ‘VAIO’ screen and then XP boots. I tried to push all F[n], Canc or similar but nothing. The one that makes the bios start, if I have the DVD insert, makes the system block on a ‘push F2 to start….’ ?_?
Any suggestion?
My pc is a Vaio TZ21MN/N notebook. Thanks

Arnold,
I fixed my problem by making sure I use the “customize” button when i install using the atkos dvd. You need to make sure to select the x86 bootloader. Then following the posted instructions should get you to boot properly.

I’ve been having the same problum for a long time now with several different leopard downloads. I have XP and Vista installed on my computer with Vista as primary. I would like to do a tri boot. Here’s the problum, when ever I load up disc everything goes okay untill after the white scrolling stops and your supposed get a colored screen where normaly a little colorful circle shows up and spins. I get the colored screen but it just hangs there I dont get the little pin wheel circle thing (showing loading). Any help, much appricated.

I’ve installed iAtkos 1.0i R2 to an external USB Harddrive. I activate the drive, and follow the steps to get MAC OS X in to Vista’s bootloader, but when trying to boot MAC OS X I get the error ” CHAIN BOOT ERROR”. Is there some way that I must edit the bootstring so that it will acknowledge the USB harddrive.

When I try installing OSX, I get to the Darwin Boot step, and when I enter the information, I get this error:

hdiutil:unmount:”s2″ failed to unmount due to error 2.hdiutil:unmount failed – No such file or directorystartupfiletool: opendev(s2): No such file or directorydd: s2: Read-only file systemhdiutil:mountvol failed – No such file or directoryYou can quit the terminal.osx.Turk teamlogout[Process completed]

The result being that Vista’s boot record get’s messed up. I fixed it from the Vista install DVD once but the second time I had to completely restore. I make a new unallocated partition in Vista that is 10 GB’s, and then mount it in Disk Utility and format it. I checked it’s “Information” after I formatted it and it says Disk 0 partition 5. When Darwin Boot asks me for the disk I enter 0, and when it asks for the partition, I enter 5. I’ve also tried the disk as disk 1, partition 5, and get the same message as above, but that time I had to totally restore my computer. What could I be doing wrong that would cause this?

I just installed my copy of iATKOS 1.0i R2 on a Asus F3JV laptop. One thing that was missing from the above steps is that just before you install, you need to add Darwin Boot Loader from the Customise screen, even though the guide told you not to change anything.

You need this to avoid having the Chain0 error, as you will be using the Darwin boot loader instead of the windows one.

You need to make sure when you create your unallocated space for the Leopard installation you create it as a primary partition, and set it to active. That way when your system restarts after installation it will use Darwin boot loader, which detects your windows (XP) installation on the other partition.

What will be the process to have tri boot (vista, xp and os x) ive installed xp and vista.. and have the both boot cd’s too, Ive just downloaded ‘iATKOS v1.0ir2′. Is there anyone here used this ‘iATKOS v1.0i r2′ and succeeded please tell me the methods about the booting part then.

I have a Compaq Persario V4125CL with XP and Vista installed.
My problum is I’m having a problum booting from the dvd. After the white scrolling, it freezes and stays at the blue screen no matter how long I wait. I’ve had this problum with other Leopard downloads. Although I tried booting the dvd on desktop I have and the installer loaded up great. Wats wrong and is their anything I can do to fix it.

I am trying to do a tri-boot w/ vista xp and osx. I got osx installed using this guide, but now when I reboot without a cd all that comes up is Unable to Load Operating System. I can’t load any of them. I tried using the vista dvd to fix the startup but it said that nothings wrong. Now I can’t do anything… I really can’t afford to lose the data on any of the partitions because I have things I need for work. If anyone knows a solution please help. And if you could throw me an email about it at bartystewart@gmail.com that would be great.

Hi , I’m french (sorry for my bad english) ! when i use your guide to install mac OS x , the installation stop after i typ “-v” ( i see the text scrolling and it stop), more over i haven’t got HCPI mode , is it a probleme ??
Thank You !

Not sure why, but when i booted with an Ubuntu Live CD and erased the Partition for Mac my Vista boot is working again. My XP isn’t working and I’ve tried a repair install off of the disk, but nothing. I am now having the same problem as usuf. I created a 20g unallocated partition and when i go into the Disk Management utility all I see are the two partitions with windows. When I click on the hard drive and select partitions It can see that there is free space, but all of the options to do anything are grayed out.

Just dropping by to ask a quick question. I know its probably been asked but, here goes…

I know where to get the ISO img from and all, but was wondering – is this a legal thing to do? I mean, downloading it, then installing it – is it legal? please either, a) reply back here or b) email me : geekforhalo2-at-gmail[dot]com

DAN, that’s what happens to me also; all the options are greyed out, and when I try to “mount” the partition, is says that it cannot be mounted. I don’t even have a “format” option unless I click my whole hard drive. If I just click the partition itself, I only get options to check and repair the disk. There has to be an extra step somewhere that we aren’t doing that was left out of the tutorial.

Only if I format it through Vista first. Then, it shows up in the list with my other partitions under my hard drive, but I can’t do anything with it; the only way I can see an unallocated partition is if I choose to “partition” my main hard drive, in which case it shows up unallocated, but has no option to format.

I may try to find a utility that will format for Mac OS X Journaled inside of windows, so I can skip that disk utility step, and go straight to darwin boot, but I’m going to install sp1 and make an image of my computer in case I can’t boot into vista again.

For all those who are having the problem of undetectable unallocated space!!

Try using linux partition editor boot in the linux redhat or wateva cd.. then delete the desired volume you wish to load maac into.. then exit from the editor or simply reset ur machine booting in the iATKOS dvd.. now after the first few steps ull be abl;e to see ur hd in the disk utility prt,, and if u still dontsee it.. then use the iATKOS V1.0ir3 patch.. for iATKOS V1.0r2..

AND YES AFTER DOING ALL THE STEPS IAM HAVING A ‘BOOTCHAIN ERROR’ im using iATKOS V1.0r3 can any one gimme the solution y..?? plzzz.. im begging..

i’m not sure doing everything right. but untill now i didn’t get it work.

as describe in the howto after loading iaktos (not sure about my version) i used the disk utility but could not find darwin boot in the menu utilities. even though before i didn’t see the difference betwenn letting the system autoboot after pressing f8 the iaktos disk or following the howto. i always said x86 darwinboot after counting down. anyhow i did it the one or the other way the iaktos started and the installtion was easy but then nothing works out like the howto says. even after taking out the disk no system at all was found.

meanwhile i got the computer this fare back that it accepts the iaktos again and maybe through this i will be abel to start again from vista.

otherwise if there are some changes in the howto with a never version of iaktos i could or must say would be thankfull for some help.

wow amazing guide! thanks a lot. recently though the ToH rc2 seems to be a more popular osx to download. which do you recommend? the iATKOS or the ToH version plus what are the differences? thanks alot

Nope, I’m guessing it has something to do with the laptop’s hard drive-dvd drive configuration, because if I just click next where it prompts me choose a disk, the dvd drive is the only option (again..absolutely nothing shows up in the Disk Utility).

Hope there will be an XP version to this guide, to install on a pc where the disk is displayed correctly.

hey found a solution to boot chain error in install costumizing you have to select the EFI MBR V8 option

and your mac partition must be primary
look to your mac partition with EditHexa utility : check wether your partition has a valid boot sector … The last two bytes should read “AA55″.
Else, the boot sector of the partition won’t be accepted by chain0.

OK, I made it past the “BOOT CHAIN0 ERROR”. I had to rename my drive to “MAC_OSX” and reinstall the OS using the “Customize” option and selecting the “EFI Bootloader” only with NONE of the other options listed with that selection. I didn’t select the x86 Bootloader either. But, all is not well. I get to the grey Apple screen with the Apple logo and the progress circle and then it hangs. I am going to reinstall with the EFI Bootloader (no options) and the x86 Bootloader and see if that makes a difference. I tried installing with ALL of the bootloader options selected and that just kept cycling through the boot process. I will post my results from my next experiment as soon as I have them.

mine hangs at date localhost directoryservice[51] launched version 5.0 (v514). this is with iatkosv1.0
always hangs and i cant even get the kalyway10.5.1 to boot. any suggestions? if i dont use the -v command it hangs on the white bg with grey apple symbol indefinetly. how long should that page last?

I’m using Partition Magic 8.0 to repartition my drive since I don’t have VISTA. How do I setup up the partition using this software? Specifically, I am lost at making sure the partition is ‘unallocated’.

I guess I spoke too soon, because I just figured it out. Incase anyone else is wondering (with Partition Magic 8) you need to click ‘Resize a Partition’. It will ask you which drive you want to resize, then enter the new size. (the current size minus the amount you want unallocated). The next step asks which partition to give the unused space to. This is where you have to make sure all the boxes are unchecked and then click next. The screen screen will show you unallocated partition.

aye guys. im back and not tired. i have a way that will work for all of you. first of all when installing os x on a machine with an os system already it will be alot slower when installing. but dont give it more than 7-10 minutes if you think it has frozen. give it a little bit of time and it will work.
you need:

jas os x iso about 4 gb.

im not totally sure but im pretty sure its says up there that if you want leopard you have to get tiger first so here is what else you need.

VMware Workstation 5.5 (works best)
dont go on their site because they will have you sign up and stuff
and you wont get a fully working program unless u buy it.
its an amazing program and its on torrents too !

so go find the torrent of
it. it will be just under 80-95 mb .
dont start dloading it if its like 300 mb or something

then go to the wiki
[http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Installation_Guides#VMware_Install_Guides]

still too tired for links.

then here.
VMware Install Guides.

i recommend using vmware instead of dual booting.
wouldn’t it be ridiculous if you said my computers broken
and they said why and you said because i tried to install mac
on it. if your not completely confident that you can do it use this method.

note. that the installation of mac on vm will be slooow. but after you get it installed you will be able to share cpu between systems and it will be just fine. o and unplug your internet cable when installing it is known to find your internet and deny you… hah!. as long as its not saying waiting for root device in the boot sequence in darwin your fine ! you should hit the blue screen in no time.

if your pc is an average one you will need to turn off your
running apps in xp. try fullscreening vmware. its nice.

ah and dont go telling every sing one of your buddies about this because soon it will hit big and everyone will be doing it. you know how that is.

i drank lots of kronic energy drinks so im ok for today. i sleep alot.

dear All,
i have a veird question i have 4 sata drives on a PC
1) win xp
2) vista
3)Leopard 10.5.2
All these os i multiboot from vista bootloader but the 4th..
4)Leopard 10.5.1 i can boot independently but i cant add to the existing vista boot loader i tried different ways but without success. please help me

Hey
I tried installing iAtkos i r2,
when the text start scrolling it stops and the last message says

MAC Framework succesfully initialized
using 10485 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
Extension “com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatfotmPlugin” has immediate depencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style
I hope someone can help me

I installed MAC OSX 10.5 Leopard using Leo4all.iso. Everything was going perfect. I was using Leopard. But then my new Mac warned me about the new updates. I said “install and restart” and instaled the updates but now I can’t pass the boot screen any more. I dont see the mac desktop. whats the reason? what happpened?

I was wondering just the other day what a bummer it was that i wouldn’t be able to use the Apple iPhone SDK and then found this today. Though looking at what the hype is all about has its own fascination, i am more than hoping that it’s exactly what i need to get the iPhone SDK working…

I started the download of the image from Mininova a few minutes back and bought a brand-new hard-drive to install it to. I even felt juiced up enough to buy a 3D card that i’d been planning on buying since forever!

Thank you for the guide… hopefully won’t run into any problems with installation or setting it up. Since i will be installing it on my second hard-drive, but dual-booting with Vista, i suppose when i enter the hard-drive numumber i put in 1 instead of 0 – granted that the hard-drive is second in the bios as well?

Hi, first I wanna thank you for the great work you did here !
But I have a problem right a the beginning: when i boot from the DvD and type in -v after pressing F8, about 4 lines scroll down and then the PC reboots. I never got into the Installer… what can I do not to make this happen ?
Thanks !

For those of you that are having a problem with only so much of the lines loading after typing in -v, try re-burning the .iso at the SLOWEST possible rate your computer will do. Normally programs default to burning at the fastest possible rate, so manually make it slower. If that doesn’t work, try re-downloading the .iso and burning it at a slow rate. You may have had a bad download. If those don’t work, you may have a piece of hardware connected to your computer that the loader doesn’t agree with. Try unplugging all non-necessary components of your computer before trying to load it.

So… I burned the ISO, booted the DVD and it froze at a blue screen. I rebooted, went back into XP and noticed the DVD was only 542k… that can’t be right. I burned it again thinking it was a bad burn… but the same thing happened. I wondering if I have a bad ISO copy. The ISO file itself is 2.2 gigs, but only 542K burn to DVD. Anyone?

@kungfumaster007
That command is to set your Windows partition to be active, so that you can start back to windows… And assuming you have XP installed on the first drive – obviously – use the command as it is.

When i clicked on ‘Utilities->Disk Utility’ all the partitions (NTFS) were listed, but not the unallocated space.

Since i was installing on a secondary hard-drive, i recreated the partioning on that (2 partitions, one free space – which i later formatted as NTFS from windows and the other to Mac OSX Extended Jounraled)

Other than this, no hangs or problems at all… the setup went as smooth as possible.

Anyways… am starting up Mac OS X for the first time. hopefully will start without any problems.

@Salman Khalid, what did you use to burn the DVD? I am using Nero. I’m wondering if NERO doesn’t recognize the files in the ISO. The reason is because when I burned the DVD it only took 15 minutes. I have a hard time believing 2.2 gigs takes only 15 minutes at 2x burn speed. The first time I went to work and let it burn, so I didn’t notice. I understand why the files wouldn’t show in Windows and why the size is wrong… but 15 minutes seems like a short time to burn that size ISO.

Ok… so what you need to do to ensure that you don’t run into the Boot Chain0 Error is to hit Customize before beginning install with default settings, and checking the Bootloader from the tree. You can select the Drivers as well, but it led to the MAC being hung during startup which led me to reinstalling again.

There are a few things extra in the tutorial above… but if you follow it close enough – with the exception of checking Bootloader from the components to be installed where as the author of this blog said to install the default package – you’ll have MAC running on your PC soon enough.

I was getting a frozen light blue screen after all the text went by. Loading it again, I forgot to type -v and hit enter instead. The Mac screen showed and I had to head back to work. When I got back… I saw the installation screen. (intriguing). But when it asked where I wanted to install the OS, no drives came up.

I resized my partition using Partition Magic 8, the partition was unallocated.

When i go to Darwin Boot after entering the HD and Partition info and saying Yes to the prompts i get this:

hdiutil: unmount: “s2″ failed to unmount due to error 2
hdiutil: unmount failed – No such file or directory
startupfiletool: opendev(s2): no such file or directory
dd: s2: Read-only file system
hdiutil: mountvol failed – No such file or directory

you can quit the terminal.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? I know thats the correct partition and drive. Any help would be appreciated.

Try deleting the partitions entirely – if you have a seprate drive, then delete it completely and recreate partitions; i ran into trouble over previous installations that were resolved after re-doing the partitions.

I am tied down with some work, but will post what i did exactly to get it to work later.

@Everyone
Other than RESTART (shutdown works perfect, but restart closes everything and goes to a load screen, but doesn’t restart) and problems with setting up the Network card (i have an intel onboard ethernet card) eveything else is just perfect.

I found a solution to installing the LAN card on it and will give it a go as long as they approve my registration (so that i can download the driver info). So hopefully will be up on the internet in MAC as well. Also got Office 2008 for MAC OSX and iLife 8.0 on DVDs and am gonna try installing them to see if they work or not.

Salam Salman,
I read ur post but didn’t know what customization to change (what package to add). I installed it without any packages (iATKOS v.1) which means that it should be working perfectly. I think that you have to install the Darwin bootloader X86 from the customization menu only if u have iATKOS v1.0ir2. I had the other version so I didn’t change anything but it didnt work.

As for the partition. The Mac didnt recognize it when it was unallocated so what I did is that i changed it to allocated by choosing the size of it. I didn’t format it though nor assigned a letter for it so that it doesnt show up when I click on My Computer in Windows.

Well, I followed the kungfumaster007′s link, used the kalway version and it worked the first time. I am installing the iPhone SDK right now to see if ti works, I have the same driver issues but will work that out later.

I installed Office 2008, iLife 08, and a bunch of small Mac softwares on mine and everything’s working fine. Had to restart download of the SDK (after 80% completion) as i lost power and the UPS wasn’t charged, and though i was using firefox to download, it wouldn’t resume later!

Is it just me or the MAC extremely simple? I mean… in comparison to Windows which seems kind of huge!

The interface of Vista, i like better than MAC OS X. But there’s no denying that MAC OS X is way faster. I love the way the Folders/Setups are shown (autoruns have icons rather than buttons – sort of)

Furthermore… i just love the interface of Office 2008 on MAC! And the mail client is faster than Outlook – though lacking some features but Microsoft should include that as well in the Office suite for windows as a light version to outlook.

well im trying to install Leopard on a second partition of my hard drive(other partition has vista on it) and im using the iATKOS 1.0i dvd and when i booted it, i hit F8, and typed -v, then it looks like its doin its thing and then it stops here:
Extension “com.apple.driver.itunesphonedriver” has no explicit kernel dependency; using version 6.0

and like every 2 mins it will say “Still waiting for root device”
it gets me thinking, i have an ipod touch(very very close to iphone) and it says “itunes phone driver” hmmm….but my ipod wasnt plugged in…i have the cord to plug it in thats plugged in, but the ipod isnt attatched to the cord….soooo does anybody have any idea on how to fix this?

No luck with that yet. I have an Intel on-board ethernet card (Intel Pro v/100) and i guess its highly unlikely for me to find any drivers for that for MAC.

I’m going to try and use a USB Wireless receiever that my brother used on his previous laptop… if that is detected and installed by MAC OS X then since i already am running my DSL over a wifi router, i won’t have any problems connecting to the internet.

I was able to install using iATKOSv v1.0 r2, but when it was all said and done, during the OS loading I got a message saying I had to reboot. So no go. I wiped everything and tried again. BTW, for those who say their screen freezes at a blue background when booting from the install DVD… keep trying. I’ve noticed that I can get it to load the installer once every 6-8 tries. Sometimes more. One time I had to reboot 20 times before the installation screen booted correctly.

I’ve heard that Kalway is more stable than iAtkos… furthermore includes more drivers and apps than the iAtkos build. (You can even tell by the 2GB+ size over that of iAtkos)

I haven’t started download yet, but if am unable to get the LAN or sound, etc. working on iAtkos, might think about giving Kalway a shot. Moreover, there is something wrong wiht iAtkos’s restart on my system, as it hangs rather than restarting!

After giving up on the problems that i was having with iAtkos (Restart not working, and Shutdown not working sometimes, sound card drivers, Ethernet, and so on) i’m going to give Kalyway’s Leopard OS X a go.

Furthermore, the iAtkos is a bit too hacked for my taste. (just go into “About this Mac” dialog and you’ll know what i mean. I’d like it to be just perfect!)

True that i may not be able to get my ethernet card working on Kalyway’s Hacked Leo but i could always go for a cheap card that it does support, and i am sure i could find Soundblaster’s drivers given the time. As for not being able to use my ATI R3650 to its full capacity, its not like i’ll be playing any games on the MAC OS X, besides ATI has a few OS X drivers up on their site which i haven’t tried out yet.

I can understand their lack of drivers for MAC OS X… but they should have support for the Graphics Card on their site regardless of it being a laptop one.

Oh wait… i have Nvidia 8400G M in my laptop. When i go to NVidia’s site it tells me to grab the latest drivers from my Laptop Vendor’s site (i.e. HP) however if i proceed ignoring the warning and download the drivers, they work fine as well.

vista is on my primary of 320GB and the other is showing up as unallocated 145GB

hit f8 during countdown type -v hit enter, gets upto about 6 lines of darwin then restarts, press any key to install osx then: loading darwin/x86 i see a white background for a split seccond then the computer restarts again asking me to hit any key to install mac osx splash screen, then shuts down AHHHHHH! its like groundhog day, as far as i know i am following the instructions properly and the harddrive was shrunken properly… anyone have any ideas whats going on?

What drivers did you install to get this message? I wok up this morning to find the same message on my screen but restarted and everything appears to be working fine, I am posting this from my Hackintosh now.

There are multiple drivers in this file that you can select from, not sure if Intel was one of them. Kalway had the drivers for my sound card as part of the install and all I had to do otherwise was update my video card driver.

It’s working great so far with no problems to report. Have installed numerous apps as well as networked it with Windows machines.

Hi,
I am using iAktos v1.0 R2.
When ever i try to boot into vista my system just restatts. The problem is not that my vista partition is inactive.
I got as far as after I execute the fdisk -e…… Commands to darwin. Vista wont start so i cant continue.
Help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Josh

execute the fdisk -e commands.. they’ll activate the vista partition..
if ur keyboard doesnt work and u cant type anything just keep restarting ur pc and start iAtkos with the -s command over and over until ur keyboard starts working..

@Midoe
I already did the fdisk -e commands. My vista partition is active. My keyboard works too. When I boot up my vista reinstallation cd, it says that drive C:’s size is 0 bytes and won’t give me information about it.
Thanks for the help anyways
Josh Man

I finally got the time to install Kalyway’s OS X Hackintosh… and it is just awesome! Unlike iAtkos it shows MAC OS X 10.5.1 in the About dialog and so on.

furthermore so far no problems, like restart and shutdown works like a charm.

However, i have been unsucessful in installing the LAN drivers for my Intel Pro V/100. Tried a lot of drivers and methods but no luck yet. Will try again over the weekend. But overall, the Kalyway works much better than iAtkos.

I noticed in the steps that you say to choose 0 for the disk number. However, on my computer, I have two independent hard drives, and I want to install leopard on the second disk (Disk 1), which, would most likely change the number I enter for “Disk Number,” right?
Also, would any other 0′s be changed to 1 as well (particularly in the inputting of the commands “fdisk -e/dev/rdisk0″ as well as “bcdedit /set {GUID} PATH \chain0)?

I downloaded the iATKOS v1.0ir2 iso and burned it to a dvd for install on an unallocated partition on my hard drive along with Vista which is currently running. As soon as the disc boots up the countdown starts and I press F8 to enter “-v”. Whether I do this or not, I get the response “/Library/Preferences/SystemConifguration/com.apple.Boot.plist not found” and then the countdown restarts.
I was wondering if there is something wrong with the iso I downloaded or if the install I have is just wrong altogether but I can’t even get the actual installation to begin.

I was hoping someone would know what the problem is and have a possible solution. Thanks!

When I go to the disk utility screen to install leopard I don’t see any partions or hard drives to install to. Ive tried several differect configuations including assigning the unallocated space a letter, formatting it, and leaving it as unallocated space. Anybody have any suggestions or answers?

I have two questions:
how does ist work, when i want to install OS-X with Windows XP Professional (x64), instead of Windows Vista?
I need to know the part, where you copy the file “chain0″ to C:. With XP you don’t have the Boot-Configuration-Tool BCDEdit…

my second question:
I’ve downloaded “iATKOS v1.0ir2″ and at the installation i’ve had no “darwin boot” under “utilities” and so i missed this part. How can i catch up this point?

Thanks a lot for the guide! This works great! As soon as I get drivers for my wireless card I’m all set.

My only issue was in Darwin I, instead of selecting drive “0″ (which, when I did so, failed to mount the Darwin Boot files), I had to use drive “1″. Other than that, everything works exactly like you said it should! I don’t know why all these other people are having so much trouble…..n00bs! lol

Where would i get the Kalway DVD? What would be the difference between using iATKOS and Kalway? What should i search to find the Kalway DVD, and what is the difference between iATKOS v1.0 and iATKOS v1.0ir2?

I managed to install Leopard .. But when i get to choose between VIsta / MAc OS X … I choose Mac .. and then nothing happens..

I can see the darwin countdown .. 5,4,3,2,1 and then i get the same screen as if i pressed F8 … i choose the partition i Installed Leopard on, i hit ENTER .. nothing happens. .. i get the same screen .. again i can choose the partition .. i tried some commands but they don;t work ..

I must say .. the step where : SELECT UTILITIES > DARWIN BOOT etc.
I didnt have that option .. so i just installed without those steps .. is this crucial for Mac to work ? ..
if so .. how to fix ?

Hi,
I am currently stuck at -v command, it stopped at “root filesystem is read only; skipping kernel link data generation”. it also said that “secondary PCI IDE is Disabled” .
“Can’t add repository”
“firewire unable to determine security mode; defaulting to full secure”
Please help me how can i fix this??
Thanks a lot.

Hello, let me just say I have little experience working with mac’s so i would like to try it out first on my notebook before i go out and buy one. My question is this, i have a hp dv2415nr it has a amd processor 1.8 and was wondering if the above steps would work with an amd processor (it has Vista). If not, i also have an intel p4 2.8 w/ xp on it. How would i do it with xp?

Your contribution is greatly appreciate and hopefully i can successfully install it on my notebook or desktop. By the way, i figured a way to convert any windows vista os default language(english) to any target language. If you have not discovered how to complete this i can help you out.

Hi there
I installed the MAC in a dual boot with Vista but if I start Mac normaly it freezes in the first screen … to start it I must use the safe mode command (-x). Can U help me, please. I have a Acer 5920. Many thanks. Best regards.

same thing that happens with Nathan happens with me i have 2 different copies of iatkos same result, one gets stuck at the grey screen with the apple logo and the spinning thing and stays there forever and the other finishes the spining process and then a blue screen shows for seconds then followed by a blank grey screen which fades to a black screen and it gets stuck there forever. plz help i totally have my hands tied now. thanks

my computer keeps doing the same thing. i could not find any one who knew how to fix that. i was told it was a problem with the OSX i downloaded, but i tried another one and it did not fix it. if you fnd any thing else out let me know. i will keep looking.

Hi, I have three separate SATA Hard Drives. I would like to avoid partitioning and having two OS’s on one drive. I would like to have Vista on one, Leopard on the other, with my third drive being for file storage. What exactly would I need to change about these instructions to get that working, are there any guides to dual booting Vista/Windows and Leopard using two separate drives? Cos I cant find any and believe me ive searched, all i can find is people asking this same question. Please can someone help me out on this im desperate. Someone please please help me out with this.

“Where would i get the Kalway DVD? What would be the difference between using iATKOS and Kalway? What should i search to find the Kalway DVD, and what is the difference between iATKOS v1.0 and iATKOS v1.0ir2?”

I downloaded from MiniNova. Do a search on “Kalyway” and you’ll find it. Though seed count may seem low, it downloaded quicker than iAtkos! Even though it’s larger in size!

iAtkos is a really good hack of MAC OS X, and they let you know. Go into About after installing i Atkos, and it says iAtkos and their version not the MAC OS X logo or anything. Instal Kalyway, it’s the perfect MAC OS X system – other than modding MAC OS X to work on Intel, they changed nothing else!

If you are downloading iAtkos then download iAtkos 1.0ir2, not 1.0. IR2 release had a few issues fixed.

However, i would recommend downloading KALYWAY instead of iAtkos. I don’t know the exact differences, but KALYWAY is definitely better and i haven’t run into any problems with it so far. With iAtkos problems always existed, startup problems, or restart not working, and so on. But with Kalyways, its working perfectly.

Search using the keyword “Kalyway” in Mininova and you’ll find the image. Trust me, its better than iAtkos. I will post instructions for installing using Kalyway on my blog later tonight – msalmank.blogspot.com

I can’t wait to join the “it was a success” bandwagon too. I’ve been downloading Kalyway for 5 days at about 5k/sec… slow slow slow. I’m still only at 50 percent. By the time I get the full download I’ll have saved enough money to just by a Mac! LOL. The first time I downloaded Kalyway only took about 4 days but the file was corrupt, so I choose another torrent. Let’s hope this one works. Wish me luck!

“I���ve been downloading Kalyway for 5 days at about 5k/sec��� slow slow slow. I���m still only at 50 percent.”
NO WAY! Really? It took me approx. less than 2 days to download the whole thing and i thought i was getting it slow…

“The first time I downloaded Kalyway only took about 4 days but the file was corrupt,”
You didn’t happen to delete it, did you? If it was a winzip file and when you used Windows built-in compression to unzip it or used even the latest WinZip and it said something about the size being corrupt or not extracting the actual image file (in case of windows compression) then don’t worry!

USE WINRAR! When i extracted using Windows Compression, it extracted all but the image file. When i extracted using latest WinZip, it threw an error at the end of compression saying that the size of the uncompressed file didn’t match according to what the compressed file had – and deleted it. But when i used WinRar, it unzipped perfectly.

I will try WinRar and see what happens. The program I first used to extract it would just delete the iso file every time after finishing. No error message. I was like WTF? So, I tried using Windows’ built in extractor and it gave me an error message. So I thought all was lost. Thanks for the tip, I hope it works!

Hi, had to set 2 partion with the leopard, than use vista to format the 1@ partition, installed the vista and then the Leopard, f/u the instructions, show dual boot, vista booting fine, but when I tried to boot the Leopard, give me message of Chain booting error
thanks for the help

I was going to write a full-fledge tutorial, but i realized most of the process was what i did to install iAtkos (as explained on my blog). So i wrote a new post detailing what differs and needs to be taken care of to install iAtkos.

@ Salaman..this is Ray again.. I have partitioned the hard drive and allocated 10gig of space for the mac os. I sent the information from the torrent to dvd-r and restarted my system. I push f12 to go to the boot menu and select boot from cd/dvd. My computer acts like things are fine, then a prompt reads out “media read error”. How am I supposed to burn the information to the disc from iatkos. I think my error is in how I wrote the disc because vista can’t open the file on the disc… help

After burning iAtkos or Kalyway or any other hacked OS X, don’t look at the size of the DVD in Vista/XP and think it didn’t write correctly. Because most of the DVD files are in a format unknown to windows and thus the size is all wrong. It is mostly the size of the files visible within Vista usually.

Secondly, since you are getting that error when trying to boot-up from the DVD, don’t assume that there is anything wrong with the image. For some reason, iAtkos requires you to burn at the minimum speed possible! In Roxio my max speed is 16x or 8x, but the minimum was 4x. Before burning i set it to 4x (it is usually set to the fastest speed possible by default). Re-burn the image at a slow speed and try again.

If doesn’t work, re-download. But like before, i recommend downloading Kalyway instead of iAtkos.

Same here… upgraded to 10.5.2 but no luck with the Pro/100 card. So many solutions out there, and so far none has worked!

I’m downloading the full version of Kalyways 10.5.2 as well… am going to give that a go. I am thinking of going out and purchasing a card that is supported by MAC OS X… Modem cards are pretty cheap here; from Rs. 100 to 300 – that’s like $2-$5.

Same here… upgraded to 10.5.2 but no luck with the Pro/100 card. So many solutions out there, and so far none has worked!

I’m downloading the full version of Kalyways 10.5.2 as well… am going to give that a go. I am thinking of going out and purchasing a card that is supported by MAC OS X… LAN cards are pretty cheap here; from Rs. 100 to 300 – that’s like $2-$5.

thanks Salman Khalid
I went with your instructions, installed everything, but when I choose to boot with the mac os, it reboot the notebook, no problem to load the vista.
Any ideas what is going on?
thanks

WinRar did do the trick, but when I burned it, I got an error that the length didn’t match. I ignored the error, but after I burned it the DVD wasn’t bootable. So I’m guessing there really is something wrong with the file.

well no one told me anything about needing a SATA DVD drive in order for the installation to work. That’s what i found out on the insanyMac forum.

I’m using a IDE DVD drive and upon boot the first and only error stop me from going forward. <>

I tried using a IDE to SATA plug but my motherboard just won’t detect the DVD drive (i think its the drive duo its not that old).

Please someone tell me how to install with a IDE DVD drive without using the convertor. I read on the insanyMAc forum that it is possible but no one wants to teach, and i can’t post topic nor reply on that forum even after i registered (really sick of it).

Please help, i am using a copy of iATKOS 1.0 ir2, with a IDE Samsung DVD drive, a 250GB IDE HD (1partition windows/2nd leaving for MAC), and my motherboard is an ASUS P5k.

I don’t understand… it could be an image problem which you downloaded?

So far i’ve been pretty lucky in this regards; downloaded iAtkos, no problems creating a boot DVD from that… downloaded Kalyway 10.5.1 and it worked. Downloaded Combo Update for kalyway 10.5.1 to 10.5.2 and that worked too!

And am downloading the new 10.5.2 Kalyway full DVD (am giving that a go cos i still haven’t gotten my LAN working) and hopefully won’t have any problems with that!

I got Kalyway 10.5.2, followed the instructions properly and got it to work. But, my my gfx is messed up, i only see a black screen, and when i fix it with mount uw/ and /movevideodrivers, i still get the same error..
is there anyone in the same boat as me?

Well, i managed to get it installed successfully, but I have a bit of a problem. When I select to boot leopard, what happens is that I get to a white screen with a grey apple logo in the middle. Under it, there is a loading wheel (very similar to the firefox wheel), and it spins. After about a minute and a half, theres a small circle with a line through it (like the no-smoking signs, except without the cigarette) appearing between the stem.leaf of the apple logo and the apple part. Leopard does not boot.

Also, when I was doing the bcdedit commands, I screwed up a bit, so I have a few extra options when I boot up. How would I go about deleting them?

Hmmm… i had a similar problem once, but when i reinstalled, it didn’t happen again. (I’ve probably done over 15 successful installations in the past week – most of the time the OS X becoming unfunctional due to some file that i try out to get my Intel LAN card to work – i’m planning to install 10.5.2 full release of Kalyway once it downloads completely (as of now, its downloaded 74.3%) and sticking with that, even if my LAN doesn’t work.)

Which torrent did you downoad? Is it “kalyway leopard 10 5 2 dvd intel amd 4122511 tpb” from mininova? I might try to download that one too, see if it’s faster. I’m at 80% right now with 10.5.1 I think this is day 7!

Hi!
Thanks for your instructions. I have a little problem with booting Mac. As I am typing -v it starts scrolling but soon comes to:
MAC Framework successfully initialised using 15728 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
Extention “com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin” has immediate dependancies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components;
use only one style

after this test I can’t do anything to my laptop, just turn off.
Any ideas?

fixed my sigsegv error, but when i boot leopard, it gets to the grey screen, plays that (strange strange) music, but then it stays at the grey screen, and the loading cursor is all that I see, and it doesn’t really go anywhere from there

hi, Thanks for the guide,
I’m having problems though.
I type ‘-v’ and everything and get the scrolling text, the text stops at the line:
“Apr 13 19:29:55 LocalHostDirectoryService [51] Launched version 5.0 (v514)”
And it just stops, not sure where to go from there.

Hi
I have AMD Athlon 3200 processor and vista installed i had make secon portion on hdd in vista and also installed osx 10.5 successfully but after restart at Darwin Boot Loader i press -s and try to enter

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
flag 1
quit
reboot
but when i enter fdisk -e/dev/rdisk0 it show that not a command or path found error and also not booting in any operating system not even vista

If you entered the command as you wrote in your post;
“bcdedit/ set{5d134b8e-073b-11dd-a1de-a27ad10ab714}PATH /Chain0″

then that would not work! If you wrote;
“bcdedit /set {5d134b8e-073b-11dd-a1de-a27ad10ab714} PATH /Chain0″
then that ought to work.

As for the bootChain error, you’ll have to re-install, and before installation begins, hit Customize and check the Boot option selected. Make sure you have the MBR one selected and remove the GUID one. That ought to remove the Bootchain error.

Well, I’m back where I started. I finally finished downloading kalyway 10.5.1, installed it, and I get the frozen blue screen again. I got it when I was trying to install (just like with iATKOS) and had to reboot about 10 times before the installer finally loaded. Everything went smoothly (again just like with iATKOS) until I rebooted after installation…. that damned blue screen. I rebooted about 4 times, but I just don’t have the patience right now to see if it will finally load like the installer did. Maybe I will try again later. 10.5.2 is 66% downoloaded so I will see if that proves better results. But I don’t have high hopes.

Looks like you chose some component that didn’t bode well with your system and thus OS X is skipping out on you. In the Customization screen, don’t select anything else other than the default selections but the MBR Boot option (removing the GUID option).

Uhm, when i start up the darwin boot installer or anything it doesnt show any drives on my computer at all. I dont know what the problem is or how to fix it. I have tried a few things but nothing at all seems to be working. Anyone help me out here?

Hi
I have AMD Athlon 3200 processor and vista installed i had make secon portion on hdd in vista and also installed osx 10.5 successfully but after restart at Darwin Boot Loader i press -s and try to enter

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 ( error not valid command or something like this)
flag 1 ( command not found)
quit
reboot
but when i enter fdisk -e/dev/rdisk0 it show that not a command or path found error and also not booting in any operating system not even vista
error operating system not found even if i install only single leopard still same problem

hey guys, to everyone that has been having trouble with the Disk Utility not recognizing their partitions…make absolutly sure your hard disk is in ACHI mode before you start it. I had the same problem found a forum post saying that you should tey that, i did it and it worked

I got a wierd problem. i have installed Kalaway 10.5.1 on my pc, and when i came to the welcome screen, the mouse and keyboard lags (freezes every second, sorry for my bad english) but when i installed the kalaway the mouse and keyboard workt just fine. what can it be?

Hi,
thanks for your guide to dual boot, but my question is b4 I start the process, I already have Vista installed on my comp, with all the programs and settings I like, If I were to dual boot would I lose this data?
Also if something does go wrong in the process can I just put in the Vista DVD and repair without losing any data, becuase my father would be very upset if all his files were deleted, and all my music would be gone too.
I could back them all up, which I probably will. But I dont want to go through the hassle of having to install all my programs again, and stuff like that.
Thanks again

I tried to install the iatkos v1.0r2 leopard and everything went ok until I select the MAC from vista bootloader. My computer just restart until i select the vista option, which takes to vista. Any suggestions?

When I get to the part where I have to boot up vista and replace the GUID with the GUID under “mac os x” in the command prompt, the “mac os x” part doesn’t show up. Only the windows part shows up. Anybody know why?

So far I have prepared the partition, restarted the machine and booted into the Leopard iATKOS v1.0 DVD, I have pressed F8 and typed -v at the prompt.
My problem is that immediately after this step I see scrolling DOS style text which freezes up and never progresses. It displays the message:
���com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform��� has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components:
use only one style.

sorry, this might be a noob question, but is C: the harddrive of your computer? and if so, where do i have to copy the chain0 file? i heard in the root of it, but where is that? (on vista) please, anybody, give me an answer as soon as possible.

Sometime is so hard to understand because window is not legal in installing it to a Mac Machine, it���s just a thought. A day after Apple release Leopards on the market, hackers have managed to create a patched DVD for everyone to use without buying a copy of this software to install on a PC Machine. Please be aware that this instruction is not on its own capacity for a perfect install, it is still an experimental and things may not work the way you wanted it. Now let get into the real deal, and dirty of this software phenomenon.

i tried to dual boot vista and mac but i am faced with a problem
when i boot into the atkos dvd it starts the countdown and works fine when pressing f8.
but thats where theres a prob
when i press -v it reboots and it does not show the mac set up screen
what should i do?

Ok so I installed Leopard successfully, and it botts fine, but then I wanted to go back to Vista to do some other stuff, and when I click Vista in the bootloader it goes to Darwin bootloader ( is that supposed to happen?) and then when I select the partition that vista is on it say’ boot into foriegn OS’ so I click ENTER ad the screen goes black and then it goes back to the beggining bootloader with Mac and Vista options.
So basically Vista doesnt work and I need it to work, because I have all my programs on there, and leopard was just for fun stuff. I know I havent deleted the partition or anything on it, becuase when I veiw the partition on leopard it still says that there is only 81 GB remaining, just like it was before.
What can It Be???!
I NEED HELP DESPERATLY!
PLZ HELP ME!
Thanks

I��ve got installed Leopard and made the dual boot with no problems, but when I select the leopard on the boot screen the system starts to load and get a black screen right after. I��ve tried to install probably 5 times and I always get the same error. Anyone knows what could it be? I��m using iatkos v1.0r2, selecting darwin boot x86. My computer is a laptop Dell Latitude D630, intel core 2 duo T7100 with 2gb ram.

Ive got some problems too. I start the patched version for AMD and it works all great till the part where i have to chose the partition i want to install it on. But the Macinstaller does not recognize any harddisk..
SO it wont let me install leopard.
Im using the oatched version of iAtkos v1.0i
AMD +6000×2
4gb Ram
geforce 8800GTX
enough HDD-For Leo

Hi, I finished installing iATKOS on my second partition. I was able to follow through all the instructions. However, after choosing the partition for Darwin Bootloader to boot from, a white screen with apple logos appear for 1-2 minutes and then my computer automatically restarts. I tried to do boot Leopard again and the same thing happened. Does anybody know how to fix this problem?

Hi I have amd 3200+
Nvidia A8nVM-CSM Mother board with nforce chips
nvidia network card on board
sound max sound card on board
Nvidia 7600GS Graphics Card
80 GB ATA HDD as System drive
200 GB SATA for DATA
I am using Vista Home Premium on in i have make two partition on systemdrive and installed kalyway 10.5 installation works fine and after installation i found error hfs partition error but when i installled Free BSD on my vista and i am able to boot in both os but my osx don’t have boot screen or logon screen it show some numbers or then suddenly open desktop of osx while vista work fine and also my sound card is not working and my network card detected in process but not able to connect my broadband and my broadband is pppoe and it takes ip and dns automatically please give me solution for boot screen and logon screen and sound and networking
my id is heeren_tri@yahoo.com

You’re doing it right, choose the top one. I had the same problem. When I installed it again, I choose checked the box next to bootloader under customize and that seemed to fix it.

Now I’m getting the problem of the circle with the line through it. It gets to the screen with the grey apple on the grey background with the spinning loading circle. After about a minute a box appears on top of the apple (around the stem) with a circle with a line through it, like the no smoking sign.

Hi, I’m trying to follow the steps but when I get to the place where I’m supposed to press F8, and I press it, there’s no place to enter a command. It goes to a screen where the choices are “repair your computer”, “safe mode”, “safe mode with networking”, “safe mode with command prompt”, etc. What should I do??

During bootup, when there is a choice to select either MAC OS X or Vista, both options will lead me to boot up to vista. I think it has to do with the fact that i skipped the fdisk step (cos don’t have the darwin boot under utilities menu)

Here is a complete guide to get a Dual boot setup with Windows Vista and Leopard running side by side. Please note this is a complete tutorial and if followed exactly you should be running Leopard and Vista side by side without any problems.

osxleopard

Yes, this guide has taken over a month for me to write and I have tried this out every possible combination of hardware setup I could possibly test, and I can assure you that if followed correctly you can easily have Leopard and Vista in a dual boot setup.

Loads of readers have sent me emails, dropped comments on my previous guides on installing Leopard and here is the guide for all you guys who waited so long patiently.

Disclaimer : This Guide is for educational purposes only, I suggest you buy yourself a original Mac. Also please do not post links to the Torrent���s as they will be removed.

Well before we proceed with the guide, here is the stuff that you will need for a successful dual boot setup.

Well now that you have everything ready, lets get started then. Please note this is going to take sometime so I suggest you have some Music playing near by and grab yourself a cup of coffee while you do this. Sit tight, here we go���������.

* Install Vista on the First Partition of your Hard Disk. I am not going to elaborate into How to install Windows, I hope everyone knows it. If you already have it installed then read on..
* Right click on My Computer and Click on Manage. Select Disk Management. Now Create a new Volume for OSX by shrinking an existing volume. You need atleast 5GB of space and the new volume should show up as Unallocated.
* Make sure that the partition shows up as Unallocated, else repeat the previous step.
* Now restart the machine and boot into the Leopard DVD that you burned using the iATKOS v1.0 DVD Image.
* Press F8 as the countdown begins and type -v at the prompt and hit enter.
* You should see scrolling text on the screen now.

after this i get a Grey screen with a colored circle as the mouse pointer and after 25 min my sys gets shutdown plz help me out

so i tried formatting and installing leopard on an external usb device…because i thought it would do the least amount of damage if something went wrong…. well i was wrong….it started installing osx on the external and then told me it could not “install osx on this computer”, and to restart…when i went to restart i got an hfs+ partition error, and i cant do anything after that…actually i can boot back into iATKOS v1.0i, and start again, but thats it. should i just grab my vista disk and repair or what?

i didn’t work for me i tried twice it says when i try to load it says
no operating system detected
my computer is:
nvidia 8500gt
gigabyte s2 ga 945gcm-s2l series
intel core 2 duo
vista home premium sp1

i didn’t do the startup -y option. Mac is already installed. Now is all i need to do flag my drive in order to boot vista again. Is this the same or different as setting it as active? P.s. If you don’t understand what i’m saying or can offer more help. Email me preferably a phone number and i’ll get back to you with mine. If not, an instant messager Screen Name would be the next best. If that still doesn’t work out, email correspondance is still fine.

I my friend has the actual leopard and tiger operating system disks and i was wondering
1. if i could dual boot with the real cd
2. if my cpu is compatible with the system
3. if i can install final cut pro and run it without problems.
4. if it would be better(safer) to dual boot with tiger because more of the hacks for the drivers are out there

I have installed the iatkos v1.0 r2 Version on my PC, but there is a problem with the followiung step:

….
Again select MAC OS X, and now as the timer counts down, Press F8. You would see a list of partitions on your disk with their names. Select the partition with MAC OSX installed by using up/down arrows and press ENTER…..

Hi, i’ve made a second partition, and bootet with iAtkos. My PC bootet and i type -v and press enter. Then it loads over a few lines and then it shows up an error message and I have to restart. I’ve tested iAtkos r2 also but the problem is the same with the both.
I’ve made a picture of the error message.

So, I’ve made shrunk the volume (It does show up as “Unallocated”), and I’ve booted into the DVD, and I’ve gotten into the Leopard installer. But when it tells me to pick my install location, I get nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada. All I get is the “iATKOS v1.0i” but it says it can’t install into that volume.

So, I���ve made shrunk the volume (It does show up as ���Unallocated���), and I���ve booted into the DVD, and I���ve gotten into the Leopard installer. But when it tells me to pick my install location, I get nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada. All I get is the ���iATKOS v1.0i��� but it says it can���t install into that volume.

HALPS!”

hi patrick

after u have shrunk the volume u have to make it as a new partition. Then boot the DVD ok . All the best with your installation

All right, thanks for the tip. Leopard is now installed, but I’m having some trouble with the command line.

I think it may have something to do with the fact that my laptop has two hard drives, and Leopard is installed on a partition of the secondary drive (Drive D).

I was dubious if I should copy the chain0 file to :C or not, so I decided to follow the instructions.

So, should I copy the chain0 file to (On a partition of which OSX is installed) and replace every instance of “c” in the command line commands with “d” or something like that? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I downloaded EasyBCD and deleted the previous Mac OSX entry because I got a chain boot error. I also deleted the chain0 file off of C and put it on D, and did the command line entries again.

I restarted my computer and I got the “pick your OS” screen. I chose Mac OSX, and I got a loading bar that said “Windows is loading files”. The bar finished, and I got the small cycling loading bar that said, “Microsoft Corporation” so I thought Vista was starting up. Then, I got a blue screen and something called the Startup Repair opened.

Help! How can I boot with EasyBCD and use the Mac OSX installation? If someone who knows how this works/has had this problem too, please let me know.

When I choose Windows Vista, it boots into Vista just fine. I only have trouble with OSX.

I think it might have to do with the fact that I have it on my D drive. Should I do a clean install of OSX? I’ll try doing a clean install of OSX on my D drive, and I’ll get back to you.

I followed the directions step by step and it boots into vista on both entries. I then installed easybcd and on the mac entry it says chain loading error, it still boots to vista ok, what should I do to get the mac partition to boot?

If anybod finds out how please contact me and tell me how i have it runnin but i have to f**k around to get it to boot by changing the partition to boot etc etc im also available on MSN messenger jonno_greenday@hotmail.com

I have tried to install using many different patched os x dvd’s, but still no luck.
i am using a SATA dvd rom and an IDE hard disk.
Mother board is asus P5N-D
graphic card is asus nvidea geforce 8800GT 1gb
2gb ddr 2 ram.

can anyone of you let me know whats the problem.
it always get stuck at the loading screen. thats right after we click the round arrow at the first screen…

Hi there! Nice tut! Just wondering, is it the same to download the iAtkos v1.0i, iAtkos v1.0ir2, iAtkos v1.0ir3 or the iAtkos v2.0i? Which one should I install?
I’ve got an HP Pavilion dv6379us, Intel Core 2 , T7200, 2.00GHz with 2GB RAM.
Please, just throw me a few lines.
Thanks!

please please help me
i’m about to lose my mind i don’t know why it stop even before any thing happen just the scrolling text then another screen at its with some error after intilizing mac frame work
if u nedd any pics or else tell me please but help me man i spent 2 days partitioning and having problems with my hard and it all for nothing or wat

I have been trying to install os x86 on my compter for about a week to no avail. I have an asus mobo, m2n-e amd 4200+ with a raptor ata drive as the primary and a maxtor 60gb ide drive, a radeon x1650 pro video card. every time i attempt to install it upon boot it says it is going to jettison the kernal something or other because a volume is not detected. I tried the method of shrinking the partition and creating a secondary on the main ata hd, but it attempts and comes up with an error. I am running windows Vista 64 bit if it makes any difference. Let me know if you need any more info.

Also I attempted to install on my old system using a just the ide h-drive unallocated fromat, and it gets to a point where it says it is waiting for a root sector which is further than i had gotten on the first system. THe second system is an asus k8v-se deluxe with 3200+ 64 bit processor, similar video card just an agp instead of pci express. It is my understanding for that system that you need to write the image file onto a HD and run the installation from the disk it’s self. I tried various programs and methods, and to no avail. some kind of walkthrough on imaging an ISO of the installation onto a hard drive would probably help me in my quest between the two options I have attempted. Let me know.

I have it up and running. Using iAtkos v2. I had the issue of not finding the partition I created in Vista… I went back into vista and right clicked the partition and then created a ‘simple volume’ this was then discovered. You then erase, which appears to be the same as format, this partition in OSx Disk Utilities.

I have a problem. Pressing F8 does not go into the Darwin boot loader. It is loading straight up to Leopard and I can’t get continue these instructions and get Vista to Load.

I was installtin Mac OS X on my E8400+ABit IP-35E+4GB RAM+8800GT and a 22″ Samsung LCD Monitor, I was able to install it successfully but the resolution was by default set at 1024*768 and there was no way I could change it to 1600*1050 and also there was no Sound. Any help?

I am having the same problem as Cody, Rob and Keith…
Cody says he got around that problem how?
When it it scrolling through the text it gets stuck at Kernel Version: Darwin Kernel Version 9.0.0: Tue Oct 0 21:35:55 pdt 2007; root:xnu-1228`1?RELEASE_1386
Can any one help
Thanks

When I once i get into the mac installation my keyboard doesn’t work. My mouse works fine but the keyboard is unresponsive. I have tryed an usb keyboard instead of my laptop keyboard but still nothing.
Model: Gateway Orion
Vista Business
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU

Ok when I try and boot it gets to the scrolling text and then stops when it reaches “USBF: 1.474 AppleUSBOHCI check sleep compatibility OHCI controller will be unloaded across sleep” can anyone please help me with this if they could it would be a ton of help thanks.

Hi, when I attempt to install the iATKOS v1ir2 or the iATKOS v2.0…. something along those lines I get the error message:
“System congif file ‘com.apple.Boot.plist’ not found”
This is for both installations.
What can I do to get around this message.
(This error comes just after typing in the -v at the prompt step.

Hey!
The guide is PERFECT!, but I can’t install it!!! When I try the command -v it goes with a long list of lines, but when it finishes instead of begin the install process,it restart the pc!!
Please help me!!

My hard drive has 3 partitions (C,D,E). Windows Vista is install to partition C and I want Mac OS X Leopard to install to partition E. How can I install Leopard to partition E in the installation progress?

hello!
my computer is:
p4 2.8
768 ram
6600gtAGP
120 + 160 HDD
3x DVD writer
motherboard is QDI P4I865 (at least that says on manual)
i’m having problem with booting. i downloaded Kalyway Leopard 10.5.1 SSE2 SSE3 but i can’t instal it. it just stops when i type -v and press enter, then is doing a little work with a lots of code, and then it simply restarts. i tried disabling boot CD option after the first boot, but it just boot’s me in vista. help needed

Hi, i have a laptop whith an intel celeron M 1,6GHz, 1GB of ram and an ati radeon xpress 200M, winsows XP home sp2 and i was wondering if i can instal (by this steps) this mac OS.
Tank’s for the time (sorry my english)

hi, for some reason i did everything on here it worked fine until i got to the part where it says select drive to install leopard too, since i have 2 hard drives, i booted into vista DVD and deleted the partition for my 2nd drive, which made it Unallocated space. so then i restarted and went into the iATKOS dvd, did all the instructions here and it cannot detect a hard drive. is there something else i need to do?

hiiii……this is vicky…
am totally new in mac world….
so i want to try mac….
so am trying to install mac on my pc…
my pc config is as follows….:-
intel core 2 duo e4500 @ 2.20 ghz
a dvd writer
intel 965 classic series mother board…
160 gb ata hdd
1 gb of ram…
and am using vista now….
so i want to ask that can i use this tutorial to install mac on my pc…??? or is there any other way to install it…

Hi,
I have installed it, run the commands and rebooted.
After choosing the Mac OS X option at the boot menu, I press F8 and then choose the correct hard drive partition that has the Leopard installation on it. Then the white screen with the apple appear. After about 10 second the loading ring appears. The after about 30 seconds a dark grey screen descends down the page and it says I need to restart in several different languages. I do this but it just takes me back to the boot menu and its starts again from there. Anybody know what the problem is and how to fix it?
Thanks
Matt

@Matt – try google, you wont get help here, and there is a lot of other info about this subject, i dont even get to choose which os to run and tried many times with different tutorials, even foolproof tutorial didnt helped me, so i guess i dont have compatible pc, i got quad q9450 and some new motherboard, fuck it, ill have to save to buy mac just for Logic8

I posted on the Uphuck forums to try and get some help. I am having the same issue as a bunch of you where it will just halt after the ���com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform��� has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components: use only one style.” thing. The reply I got was to go into the BIOS and disable hyperthreading. I can’t find a way to do this with my motherboard and since I am using a core 2 duo I believe that it is impossible, but maybe that will help someone out there.

@Jezus
Cheers man,
I wanted it for that reason too ha
yeah, i mean my laptop isnt up to that standard but its pretty new and quick, plus i have no money ha
have you been able to take the install off your comp?
x

Hi. Thanks for the great tutorial. I was following your steps with IATKOS1ir2, and hit a roadblock at the disk formatting step.

I’ve got a 20 gb partition that’s labeled unallocated, as required. Besides this, I’ve got my C:, about 201GB, and HP Recovery D:, about 11 GB. But when I go to my disk utility, I don’t see any option with the 20 gb partition. I see three options. The first option is the name of my hard disk – Hitachi HD… . It shows up to be about 230 GB, the actual size of my harddisk….., then under that, there are two options, ones for the C: with capacity ~200GB, and the D:, about 11 GB.

In the Hitachi HD… 230 GB option, I went to partition, and it has all three components, including the 20 GB free space. But it doesn’t show under disk utility. I wish I could provide screenshots. Any solution here.

Brother please check rest of the config on internet, I just wanna ask you if ALL drivers availabe for my laptop. If yes only then i’ll install Leopard, cauz i have deleted my recovery partition n also i don have a bootable Vista Home Premium DVD.
Also u have told to use iATKOS v1.0 but i have downloaded iAtkos v1.0i r3 instead will that work?????????
Give me some trustworthy links for the drivers please plz plz plz

@Mat, no way – after the msg, there wasnt anything to choose, didnt even found my wins, so i just formated disks and newly installed xp, np there coz i have xp on seperate partition just for os, but it gets kinda frustrating installing both os the 5th time

anyway i saw that no one else had the same problem so there must be prob with compability, but im fed up for now even to check wiki list for all compatible parts

I’ve downloaded and burned the iATKOS_v.1.0 iso image to a DVD with no read errors. I freed up 5GB on my hard drive. I tried to boot from the DVD and it came up with a message that a restart was required, but the only way I could restart it was to switch off the power by the power button.

When it next booted up, I got as far as the command prompt, typed -v, then after a few lines it stopped. Something about a panic debugger and an “FPU segment overrun in kernel thread context” at line 547 of /SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228/osfmk/i386/fpu.c. What does this line of code do? The file isn’t on the installation disk. Is there any way to install without a fpu option, if it’s somethihng to do with the fpu?

hey i tried to do this mac dual boot thing..
as i began..the screen hung up after i pressed -v and some text loaded but later it kept showing “STILL WAITING FOR ROOT DEVICE” …please tell me what to do… later i tried to run darwin boot loader by hitting enter….then it showed a “NOT” symbol and hung up again…
my pc config is..
intel core2quad q6600 2.4ghz
wd 250gb hdd
2gb ram
nvidia 8800gt gpu
with 2 optical drives,,,
plz help me…QUICK…!!!

hello!
my computer is:
p4 2.8
768 ram
6600gtAGP
120 + 160 HDD
3x DVD writer
motherboard is QDI P4I865 (at least that says on manual)
i���m having problem with booting. i downloaded Kalyway Leopard 10.5.1 SSE2 SSE3 but i can���t instal it. it just stops when i type -v and press enter, then is doing a little work with a lots of code, and then it simply restarts. i tried disabling boot CD option after the first boot, but it just boot���s me in vista. help needed

Whichever you want to take space away from. You are just creating another partition. Once it becomes unallocated, don’t forget to actually make it a partition, just don’t format it. That’s one thing this guide leaves out.

Hello, everything works just fine. When I boot my laptop I get the choice between vista and OS X. But with both options vista starts up. what can I do? I’ll keep working on this and keep y’all posted if I find out more.

Hi, I have been trying to dual boot Leopard and Vista with the iATKOS v1.0i r2 dvd and i can not get the Leopard installer to appear. The scrolling test pauses after it say “MAC frame work install successfully” and “use only one style”. Can any one help?

If anyone is having problems with the Disk Utility failing to recognize their disks then I’m just in the middle of it all, overcomnig MANY problems and on my laptop, there’s a bios setting called SATA Controller Mode and when I changed that from ‘AHCI’ to ‘Compatibility’ the disk and partitions show up. I hope it helps. Now on with the quest to make it work…

i’ve successfully installed MAC OS X, and i could see a Vanilla boot selection and i’ve started to boot to mac os x, but suddenly the CPU stops reading, I could only see the animated loading lines and the Apple logo with vanilla background ,waited for two hours but nothing happens

I see y’all have much problems installing Leopard on a PC. I’ve had problems myself, but i solved them all. In this post I will tell you how I solved them. I’ve worked a lot on this, so I hope this is usefull. Excuse me if my English is not that good, ’cause i’m a 16 years old boy from Belgium

If you still have problems after trying this, please leave a comment here and I’ll try to help you out. I will need to write a tutorial as well for one of the “much-seen” problems, but I don’t know where to post it yet. So be pacient ’till i found a place to post it.

I will read more of your posts to check if I can help you, but y’all have to know this takes time too.
If you want a tripple boot like me, just let me know and i’ll write a tutorial for it (maybe there already is one out there)

PROBLEM 1 — iATKOS v1.0ir2 –

Only one thing will help: start downloading iATKOS v1.0i
The r2 version does not have the darwin boot option in “Utilities” menu, so you can’t do some of the steps in the guide.

PROBLEM 2 — “Missing operating system” –

It is possible that you have vista, xp or another OS installed on your computer, (even with a dual boot) and you still see “missing operating system”. This is becouse you don’t have a working bootloader. You can solve this problem by installing Ubuntu (linux distro, only takes 2 partitions, one of 4 GB, and one of 1 GB). Ubuntu will use GRUB (bootloader). Then you’ll have a dual boot configuration of ubuntu and vista (or xp)*

*If you had already a dual boot config, you will now have a tripple boot config

ADVISE 1 — Other versions of iATKOS –

Please search for the right version. Don’t download somthing else. If you want to use another version of iATKOS, go search the web for a guide regarding that version.

PROBLEM 3 — Chain Booting Error –

In this guide, when you have to tell the darwin tool on witch HDD* you will install Leopard, and witch partition you will be using, you have to type 0 for your first HDD, 1 for your second, and so on. You have to do the same for the partition.
Instead of typing “0″ for your first HDD, type “1″.
If you use your second HDD, type “2″, and so on.
Do NOT do this for the partition selection. Only if you still got the error, you have to do this for the partitions as well!

Go on with the installation and follow the steps in this guide. Once you get to the step where you have to boot into vista, get back here.

Ok, let’s boot into vista and open the command prompt. Type the fllowing:

bcdedit /copy {current} /d “Mac OS X”

What you just did, is verry simple; you copied the windows boot profile (of the bootloader, the OS you’re using right now, witch is your current), and you changed the name of that profile.. Now type this:

bcdedit /enum active

Now you will see all the active boot profiles you have. The first one will be the bootloader itself. The second will be windows (and the one we’re using now, witch you can check by the identifier; sould say “current”). An finally we have the third. This one sould have “Mac OS X” as description.
If you check the third profile with your current profile, you should see everything is the same, exept the description. If that’s true, restart your computer.

Again, you should see three profiles. Same as before, the first one is your bootloader, the second windows (but not your current) and finally, the third, Mac OS X. There you should see “Current” as identifier now. If that’s true, type in this:

bcdedit /set {current} PATH \chain0

!!attention!! Make sure you type {current} instead of the alphanummeric GUID we used to type!!

i tried with the iATKOS dvd
but after the disk formating i closed UTILITY
then again opened it
but ther is no DARWIN BOOT option in the UTILITY
can you please make me a little more clear?
i am a newbe here
so this question may be a dumb for you
i tried with Kalyway, Leo4all and iATKOS
but couldnt find darwin boot in diskutility
should i restart again
whats wrong with me?
hope you can point out
mine is an intel core2duo 2.2 processor with 2 GB ram
intel motherbord
vista ultimate running

I’m trying to help you all, but it takes time, because I have to try to GET the error myself.

So, These are the problems I’m currently working on:

PROBLEM ONE — Text stops scrolling with root device error –

It’s very hard to solve a problem, that I don’t have myself. So you have to help me by doing this:
–> boot into vista and log in (of course)
–> insert the iATKOS DVD and open it in Windows Explorer.
–> Write a comment and type the content of the DVD. (sould be a few files)
–> Wait for my reply to proceed :p

PROBLEM TWO — Chain Booting Error –

First I need to knwo witch step is not working for you. Do you have problems with the command prompt in Windows?
–> Tip: Before I’m gonna help you individually, I want you to make a backup of your Boot configs. This can be done by typing the following command:

bcdedit /export “C:\bcdbackup”

This should have created a file on your C drive. We can use it later as backup.

PROBLEM THREE — Network, Sound, Display, Etc. problems –

I have some of those problems myself. I believe it’s all about mac drivers, but where can you find mac drivers for PC? I’ll help you out. But first I want to try it myself before telling you, ’cause if somtn goes wrong…

So, that’s my help post for today, and remember: I’ll help y’all, but be pacient.

Try installing Ubuntu (Linux distribution) on a new partition.
You can make a new partitions in the ubuntu installer itself, so no need to download gparted (linux based too ).

You will need two partitions for installing ubuntu. Make a partition with a size of 4 GB, and Ext3 (just follow the instructions on the installer screen of ubuntu) as filesystem, and a little partition (about 1 GB) formatted as Swap.

Make sure you got those partitions and continue installing Ubuntu.

Just follow the steps on the screen. When that’s finished, you can try to backup what’s important from your harddrive. Normally you can access almost every type of partition formats (such as NTFS, FAT32, EXT3, and so on) on Ubuntu.

When you’ve got backups of everything that’s important to you, reboot your computer, use Gparted or somtin’ to erase evrything, and make new partitions. recommendet:
an NTFS partition for Vista
an NTFS partition for mac, but we cannot format this to the right format yet

Then install Vista. I think the Vista installer is clear enough, so i’m not gonna explain any of that.

After installing Vista, try again installing Leopard, and make sure you do it right. Also make sure you have the RIGHT version of iATKOS. See my hint above.

To be 100% safe, do NOT install any patches or drivers during installation.

Make sure you do EVERY step in this guide, and check my long post above too.

So, everything should go smoothly. If you still have trouble, drop a comment, and tell me exactly what happend. otherwise I can’t help.

I already wrote a post to solve this problem. If you have a problem, please read the big posts before asking questions. I’m sure in most of the cases, you’ll find an answer. My first big post contains another way of setting up the bootloader. Try that. If that doesn’t solve your problem, i’ll try to help you out.

@ Ivan

I’ll try your way to solve the problem out, and type it in the next troubleshooting post I write. That way, others can try it too.

@ Gabriel

Can’t understand a word of what you’re saying. please try to retype your problem in English, or find someone to do it for you

I have completely installed everything and i can boot into Mac OS in safe mode but if i try to boot in normally it gets to the gray screen with the apple and then freezes. If anyone could let me know if they got a solution to this that would be great.

I was able to get a copy of iATKOS v1.0i and got the following errors:

When I am in the Darwin Boot process, my keyboard stops working BUT I am able to continue by using COPY and PASTE the characters to answer the prompts. However, I still have a problem with the Chain Booting (Sorry, but your explanation on how to use the Darwin tool to select the partition was a little unclear.)

My notebook HDD has three partitions, the third one I created for OS X. When I use the Darwin tool to select the drive, I used the following settings:

HDD = 0 (for disk 1)
Partition = 3 (for disk partition 3)

Darwin says I will install OS X on “disk0s3″. Is this correct? Because using this setting I received an error message in the Darwin terminal window that says unable to locate the partition.

However, I am still able to continue the installation and notice the OS X installation progress bar. Then I reboot with the DVD inside, press F8 and then -s. All I get is a page of scrolling text and then it stops. Thats as far as I got

I will try to do my bes with english! DVD burned and Partition created success! But when i try to install macOs (Pressing F8 and tiping -v) i can see the scrolling text on the screen, after some seconds the pc restarts…. I have a Core 2 Duo desktop with Sata raid 0 (2 HDD). I cant solve this trouble, i dont know what to do! Thanks u very much!!

The only advise I can give you now is to reinstall Leopard. Maybe you better delete the new bootconfig of Mac OS X first. This can be done by following these steps:

–> Open Cammand Prompt in Vista
type the following commands:

bcdedit /enum active

this displays all the profiles in the store

bcdedit /delete {profile identifier} /cleanup

This command deletes the profile from the store. Type the alphanumeric identifier instead of “profile identifier”. That value can be seen above, (that’s why you typed “bcdedit /enum active”) and should be the first value in row.

type again:

bcdedit /enum active

this is only to chack if the entry is gone.

@ Eric

Thanx for your compliment. I think I can help you out. Do the following:

–> The fact that your keyboard is not working is very strange. Il’l try to find out how to solve that one. If you have a keyboard with a PS/2 connector (not USB), I suggest you try a keyboard with a USB connector (try this first?). For now, continue pasting
–> once in the darwin utility, press “1″ for your first HDD, instead of “0″. this should solve the partition problem. Continue the installation.
–> If the keyboard problem is not solved when running Leopard, reainstall Leopard, but check (by clicking the checkbox ) the driver package using the “custom install” option in the Leopard installer.

!! ATTENTION !! You should do these steps ONLY if you have problems with your keyboard. Otherwise you can have an unsuccessfull installation! (had one myself)

And Eric, remember this: A few weeks ago, I was a newbe to this myself

So, nobody is aswering huh? I’m busy all day long trying to GET the problems you guys have, trying to solve them, getting back on them, and nobody seems to be taking care of your problems? Did you read any of these comments? It would be much easier for me to leave y’all alone with your trouble. I got it working fine, so no need for me to post comments anymore.

I’m sorry if I don’t comply to your needs. I just don’t like your comment.

Dual Boot Leopard & Windows Vista. Interesting subject. My son has wanted to setup this configuration for a long time. After all, it is very hot here in Gilbert, Arizona. It is better to sit inside trying to complete this computer installation project, instead of resting in a chair in the hot sun. By the way, you have a great blog site. I will have to link to it! Your remote technical support is perfect. Forget the complainers. Just keep up the good work. Think of all of the people visiting your site, because of your ingenious idea.

Ok… I have downloaded and burned iATKOS versions 1 and 2 and neither of them will enter setup correctly. On version 1, I cannot even get passed the Darwin screen where you are supposed to enter “-v” to launch verbose mode. I enter “-v” and the Darwin just restarts. On version 2, I can get as far as “Click the button to install…” After I do that, I get a Mac logo and a blue/white striped loading bar that is animated for about 30 seconds and then just stops. At that point, I just left the computer for a while and came back, roughly an hour later, and it was still stuck at that screen. I also tried, with versions 1 and 2, to run the install using “-v -legacy” and on both versions, I got the same behaviors. Any suggestions? Has anyone else experienced this? If so, how did you get passed it? Thanks a million for any assistance!!!

You used google, didn’t you Search in these comments. I wrote the post. I’ve been posting since June 20th 2008, so you really don’t have to look that far. I just don’t want to type everything 10 times.

I have been reading your post and they have been really helpful so far. I was reading some of your earlier post and you said that if i ran into the problem with the scrolling test stopping to post the details of the iATKOS cd I am using.

Still checking for you. But I don’t think the problem has to be found on your disk, ’cause I think you’ve got all the files you need on your disk.

@ whitefang888

This guide is for Intel computers only. Since Apple’s computers are based on intel, I don’t know there is somtin’ like this for AMD. I saw a download of iATKOS of AMD too, but i’m not sure if it works. I don’t have an AMD PC, so I can’t help you on this.

Has anybody got this working on an Intel 845 chipset? I’ve tried iakos versions 1 and 2, ToH and Kalway on two different computers with i845 and one AMD chipset and none of them complete the Darwin bootup but throw loads of erros and grind to a halt.

I thought I’d go for the iATKOS v1.0, instead of v2.0 since it’s in the guide. But here’s my first problem in this long and tiresome journey: I can’t seem to get through the Darwin loading. I press F8 at the countdown and I type “-v” and hit enter and what happens next is that the computer reboots. I tried without the “-v” command line, but that didn’t work either. Help is appreciated!

I already posted 2 times, that only version 1.0i can be used. The file should have the size of 2.09 GB. Please read the big comments (starting Jun 20th) and you’ll find many answers to problems you might have. For the unsolved problems, please be pacient, ‘caus I’m working on it.

@ Danny Crossley

Please read those comments too. I’ve posted before that this only works on Intel machines. Anyway, I see you’ve got another problem too. Ill check that one out.

Thanks for your on going help, you seem to really understand what is going on. If you think all of the files are on the iATKOS_v1.0 dvd i will try re-burning it. I burned a an .iso file iATKOS that was 2.09 GB at 4X.

I have had a working leo 10.5.4 on 3rd partition, and vista on 1st(non working), so to load in vista i used a backup image to repair vista.
In vista i made everything is needed and take reboot…
Than where i expected to see darvin boot menu, i’ve got a “Blinking cursor error”:(((

Hi
fortunately I manage to pass through the darwin boot in iatkos v2 installation, after I’ve gone through the disk utility and the darwin boot loader setup, the system then begin installing but It stop at the halfway (about 20%) of the installation saying something about the intel package couldn’t be installed T_T, I tried again but its the same

any help or advice would be very helpful or should I go with the iatkos v1?

my hardware spec is Dell E1505 with core duo n X1400

ps: for those who don’t know how to start the darwin boot utilities
in iatkos v2, you simply go to Utilities>>Terminal then type in “darwin boot” to start it

Hey i downloaded Kalyway 10.5.2 and burned it to a DVD. I think i burned it to fast cuz u cant boot from it, when i put it in nothing happens.
so im gonna try and burn it again. But i have a important question.
Does anybody know how i can customize my AMIBIOS for kalyway?
it doesnt have any of the options i got from lifehacker, and i dont know
how to upgrade the bios. (its from 04)

I got passed the “Still waiting for root device” message. I shut down the computer and unplugged one of my ATA DVD-ROMS and one of my SATA hard drives so I only had one of each plugged in. After starting up I was able to continue and install.

Thanks for the guide, i think it will really help me, but before i start i just wanted to know is is possible to use a second hard drive or external drive and boot OS X from there, or do both OS’s have to be on the same HD??
Thanks

Hi All.
A few months ago, I had successfully installed leopard onto my system (with a few hardware issues, but tahts not important). However, my computer had to go in for repairs, and I have recently had it returned to me. My question is, seeing as I have ben out of the loop for quite some time now, is Kalyway 10.5.2 still teh best way to go, or has some new releases been created in the last, say, 3 and a half months or so, which are better?

@ Aassem Askari
Again, this guide is about iATKOS. I recommed you use iATKOS v1.0i, but if you really want to use Kalyway, ask this question on insanelymac forum, or macforums.

@ antonio
No idea.I’ll see what I can do.

@ Phillip
Read before you ask. Not even 10 comments ago this problem was solved.

People, I’m alone here to solve your problems. Y’all keep asking and asking. Please read and search before asking questions. Sometimes I’m just wasting my time reading about problems that already have been solved, and responding on them. This topic isn’t the only thing in my life.

Sorry, but i did search for my particular problem with “still waiting for root device”, didnt know it could boil down to the version i was using. Also i thought an AMD patch/update could be implemented for leopard to work on amd machines after the installation.

I am using iAKTOS v4.0i on a Dell Inspiron 1720M. I had 5 partitions on that drive already… I swiched to a different drive, and now it starts booting up, but when it gets to the white apple logo screen with the circle loading thing it stops loading and a gray circle with a line shows up in the middle of the screen.

hey there, thanks alot for this, i followed all the steps u said but i dont get the prompt that asks the disk number and partition number. i choose the partition i formatted by using the mouse, however, after the installation is complete, i boot into darwin and type -s but it stops at a command and the keyboard does not work all the time��� please help

i run a 2.16 centrino duo with 1GB DDR2 ram and 512MB VGA atiX1600��� its a LG S1 laptop���

Thanks for the wonderful tutorial.
I have 2 HDD installed in my desktop. I have followed your instructions step by step without any error.
I loaded Mac OS X on Disk1 as i had Vista loaded on Disk0.
After the entire install process I get to choose between Mac OS X and Vista. When I select Mac OS X It boots straight into Vista. I dont see the Darwin loaded at all.
What is that i have done wrong. What should I do to boot into Mac OS X.
Please help!

hi i followed the guide and vista works and i get the window to choose to boot into vista or mac os x but when i choose mac os x it just boots into vista please help ive been trying to get it to work for 2 days

I fixed my other problem and now when i start it goes to darwin boot, if i select the windows one it boots to vista just fine. I���ve got as far as Darwin loading up, i typed ���-v���, rather than booting it comes up with a list of 15 or so items, before the screen flashes and the computer reboots. if i dont type -v and just press enter, the apple loading screen comes up, it shows the same thing it does when i type -v, just over the apple boot screen then flashes and restarts the computer.

Has anybody figured out the “no drives detected thing” yet. Come on there’s like 20 postings about this and noone has an answer. SOMEONE GIVE AN ANSWER even if it’s “dude, It’s not gonna work, man” PLEASE. FOR THE LOVE OF JEBUS (and that is not a typing error).

You’ve reached my sense impolite. You leans on the back of someone else for your problems. You complain to the people who answer questions, while doing nothing yourself. I knew a month ago nothing of this. Why don’t you search for your own solution? I can not solve all of your probelms, and to be honest, I’m starting to get tired of this.

So no, I don’t have a solution for this problem, and it will take a while ’till I’ll search for one.

i am trying to install iATKOS 1.0i with amd patch but every time i go to disk utility, there is nothing there. i have tired to format, recreate the partition in every way i can but still nothing comes up. any help thanks

I could not use the iatkos v2.0 DVD image to install to my system, instead, i used the leo4all v.2 DVD image and it worked. However, i have 3 partition in my hard drive: in partition 1, i have vista installed previously. partition is just for data storage. and partition 3 is the one i installed mac os x. my problem is: after i finished the installation of mac os x, i could not boot into vista anymore. i try to use the vista DVD to recover it, buy it does not see the original OS. How COME? Any help please?

I instaled a IDE device with master jumper on, IDE DVD as slave and booted with -x -v -f flags. No problem with still waiting for root device.
But the setup stopped in a line saying CODE SIGNIG: cs_invalid_page: p=129[ssave] clearing CS_VALID
What it means?

“Select the Volume you created previously and format it as MAC OSX Journaled Extended. Once the formatting is done the volume is ready for installation.”

the problem here is that i cannot select the volume i created (the unallocated space) because it’s not there. i partitioned my 400gb hard drive to 160gb for xp and the rest is unallocated space. after i boot from the leopard disk, and go to disk utility, all i see is my hard drive, and the branch under it for xp, which is 160gb. i cannot select the unallocated space as it does not appear in the disk utility. please help.

Haven��t been able to install beacuse when I get to the point of formatting with Disk Utility, the app cannot see any discs. I have on C windows Vista and the rest is unallocated. Also tried on Vista Disk managemente to assign letter D but no format and it didn��t work. I��m using Aitkos V4i.

This version have support to AHCI? I think this is my problem. When booting, it came a “prohibited” signal above the Apple logo and freeze on it. Anyone else had that problem? I’m using a Sata II 250Gb HD with AHCI Bios enabled. If i disable it on BIOS, my Windows won’t recognize my disk anymore. Any answers?

I have installed it fine I just can’t seem to get it to boot. I have to boot loader with both options but both go to vista! I think i entered everything in correctly but not exactly sure where the {GUID} was so I entered the long number/letter sequence. Any tips?

Hi!
I come to when it checks the dvd and when its done with that which goes just fine. The installation prepares to start and then it says Installation Failed could not create some file and that i should restart my computer and try again.
I think it might be that i can��t choose darwin boot from utilities but i dont know
PLEASE HELP ME
Thanks

Hi. It works now, even with AHCI actived. Well, the problem is i just can`t make the iWork 08 and the Toast work!!! I don`t known what is going on. The Toast 9 just can`t load. Start to load, but disappear and nothing happen. With the iWork 08, all the applications, make my CPU usage goes to 100% and freezes (Keynote, Pages and Numbers). Tried to download a lot of times again. Any Help?

Hey, i started this process and partitioned the drive to another 50GB and it said unallocated, i then put the atkos 2.0 disk in and restarted, boot options came up i hit f8. Then typed -v and it did its scrolling text. when i got to the apple screen and hit utilies and disk utility i selected the hard drive and it didnt show my second partition just the original one with vista and it was missing the 50GB that i shrunk from it. i then turned off my computer to try to get back into vista and now my Computer wont even POST. Anyone got a clue what is going on? pls help.

themurph, try to put your HD on another computer and see if your data is all there. Just a clue.

LOU, i don’t know if it works on AMD processors. You need to check this out first. And something else: when my sata disk was with AHCI enabled, i had some problem, something like that. If you have this enabled, try to disable it first.

OK, so I downloaded iATKOS and burned it to a dvd (r+) and then I booted it up after I made an unallocated partition on the Hard Drive of 28 GB. Then I press -v at the boot screen for the DVD and it goes through scrolling for a while, then it says still waiting on root device…
then i tried downloading two other iATKOS versions, with no luck, then I tried some other Mac Installer programs with no luck…

Why can you people not use the Search function? This guide WILL NOT work with AMD CPUs, Kalyway images and any iAtkos release besides v1.0. Please try to follow Brecht’s suggestions for installation and STOP ASKING THE SAME QUESTIONS OVER AND OVER.

how would one go about installing it on a second hard drive? i have two as well as intel dual core in my laptop.

anoth prob: i downloaded the torrent from The Pirate Bay because there were more seeders. but now when i boot from the dvd, and i accept the terms of service it brings me to a screen with no text.

ellaboration:
i entrer the installer. i accept the terms of service, and ove on to the next window, which is the destination window. i figured i could put it on my d-drive that way. but there is no text in the window. there are the buttons, but only the “go back” one isn’t frosted over.
any help?

Thanks Eric, happy to see someone else who thinks like that. I simply don’t reply on already-asked questions anymore. I stopped working on this for a while, because I currently don’t have the courage to read all these comments and list every different one to solve.

ummmm, so ive been looking for a way to do this for a while now, ive backed up my entire c drive to an external hard drive so im not too worried, i just dont want to shred vista off my machine, i have an hp pavilion laptop, its got an AMD turion 64bit proccessor, umm 250 gig hard drive, 4 gig ram and whatnot, ive just run into some worry reading this and seeing that almost everyone is running intell preccessors, should i just go ahead with this even tho im on an AMD or will that burn out my hardware or something? or is there an iAtkos v1.0i R2 version for AMD thats been tested and works? would i have to do anything different from this guide if theres another version, im new to this bizz, so any help would be vastly appreciated, maybe a rundown on how to do everything, someone i can email for help if i mess this up big time… that sort of thing, one other question i had, is os x going to see all the music i have on my hard drive? like can i import all my files into it?

Ummm. I was just wondering, If I install Lepoard onto my machine, will it still have the bootcamp feature. THat would simplify everything 4 me cause I want to custom build a new machine but I dont want to buy XP HOme OEM with it. Anyway any help would be much appreciated. Cheers

Thanks a lot gonna have fun with this iv installed this sucessfully on a 20 gig hd i had kicking around i put in as a slave for this is there an easy way to replace with a larger one if i feel the need to
Thank you again

as i said above i have sucessfully installed this i have decided not to dual boot i just boot from the dvd as my kids use the comp and dont want to create confusion is yhere anyway to create a boot usb disc so i just plug it in before i switch the comp on as its a pain starting it to put the disc in and restarting thank you in advance

I had the “chain boot error” too and I found the error for my problem.

“At the prompt when it asks for the Disk Number enter 0. For the Partition Number if your Leopard Partition is 2nd on the disk, then enter 2 and so on.”

at this step you have to enter “1″ and then “2″ when you installed mac on the disk0s2..
leopard is now starting – but hey nothing is working.not even the ethernet card or the soundcard..
what’s the point of installing mac when nothing is working?
cant find the drivers I need on the net.
so I would better have a good working vista on my computer than a not working mac os!!

i had same problem i went to my hardware device manager in vista got the names for all hardware and went to InsanelyMac Forums typed in the hardware names i needed and there was guides there on how to sort everything it just a matter of changing your kext files

hey im so close…
i think its the darwin loader thats the problem…
i can never seem to get it to install correctly…
always tells me that the drive is already unmounted
and then just a bunch of fail messages…
i got all the way to dual boot
i click on Mac OS X and it looks like it loading
then i get a grey screen and it tells me i must restart
do you know what needs to be done?

hi, thank you for the excellent web site, i currently have two hard drives, one with vista and the other with leopard, so i was wondering how to put the leopard os on the vista bootloader, i have it on there right now, however, it loads to vista because it thinks that leopard is on the “c” drive, an help would be greatly appreciated…

ok, i have burned the iso to a dvd, i place the burned iso dvd into my dvd drive and restart the computer. When my computer reboots, i press f8, and then type -v at the command prompt. There is text that goes down the screen about half way, i believe the very last line says “Starting Darwin” and then my computer restarts. Any ways to fix this?

Ok i burned the kalyway 10.5.2 iso to a dvd and when i restart my computer and try to boot into the DVD nothing happens. I changed the boot order to boot from cd/dvd drive first and it does that but automatically goes back into windows vista. Can anyone help me with this problem. thanks.

When I try to boot Mac OS X I get a chain load error. I have not been able to boot it yet. I used the top set of Alpha Numeric things. The bottom set caused me to boot to vista (ultimate). What should i do?

I keep trying to install it. I burned the iso image into a bootable disc using roxio easy media creator but when I restart my computer and try to boot it, it gives me an “missing operating system”. I can’t figure it out. I followed the instructions and made an unallocated partition. I am using iATOKS_v1.0ir2. I can’t figure what I am doing wrong. Can someone help me PLEASE.

hi,thanks for your tutorial at first. But i have problem , after type -v at the prompt and hit enter and seeing scrolling text on the screen now but it stops at [waiting for boot volume at uuid 33840500-A52F-346A-BED0-8675851A0E79]. I have waiti for about an hour still nothing different. Please help me out of this..thanks a lot.
My laptop is hp tx2100,window ista home premium,amd turion x2 ultra 64x, ati radeon graphic card,4gb ram,320 memory.

Okay, So i followed your instructions up to the GUID part.
I can’t understand which is the GUID, your cryptic remark “under”, does it mean really Under? Anyways, now I have two Mac Os X entries, my questions are:

1) how to remove the incorrect entries
2) how to insert a correct entry

So I’m running a Sony Vaio Intel Laptop. Everything went great as far as the install goes. I did run into the “winload.exe” problem though. That’s where my troubles are. Since I have a Vaio laptop they don’t offer ‘recovery discs’. They have a recovery HD partition that is used to fix the system should something go wrong. So I tried using a friend’s Dell OEM of Vista to use the repair function. I got to the screen needed and everything. I chose repair and then it says cannot repair, shutdown or restart. Help!

I am presented with the option to boot into either Windows or Leopard when I boot my laptop up though. I can and am running Leopard fine. My only issue is I cannot go on the internet. Can anyone provide me assistance on how to get Leopard to recognize my ethernet card and wireless connection?

I have a Sony Vaio laptop, intel based running Vista. I followed guide EXACTLY and everything went smooth until…I got to the part where you are supposed to remove the dvd and then Vista boots fine. Of course, mine did not boot fine. I got the “winload.exe” error. Now I have no recovery discs to speak of just a partition on my HD to use if something happens. So I got a hold of a OEM copy of Vista from a friend. When I boot into the recovery console it asks me to load an operating system but the box is blank.

There are two buttons, “load drivers” or “next”. I don’t know what “load drivers” means so I click next which takes me to the basic screen with the options to system repair, windows hardware test, command prompt, etc. I choose system repair but it always says “system cannot be automatically repaired”. So I tried a fixboot.exe /fixboot command from the command prompt. That didn’t work either.

Funny thing, I CAN boot into and run Leopard but it gives me the error for “winload.exe” if I try to boot into Vista. Does anyone have any ideas that could help? I’d appreciate any advice or suggestions cause I think at this point I’m going to have to just reformat it all. Help?

And about Leopard, it runs fine except for no sounds at all and I cannot get internet working at all. Can anyone offer help or ideas for that too?

Hi,
I have a HP laptop with AMD CPU, 2GB ram. I am trying to install the Leopard using your instruction, but it STOPS right after I push F8 and enter -v without any message. Would you please advise?
Thanks,
Al

I don’t know if you guys read the whole guide + comments, or just the guide. A while ago i’ve posted some solutions to solve some problems. But because everybody kept asking the same questions, without reading anything I stoped searching for solutions. I’ve been through 70% of your problems and solved most of them. It took a lot of time. So, my advise is: start reading all these comments, especially the big ones.

I’m negating those who ask things about other versions of iATKOS or Kalyway. This is about iATKOS 1.0i.

I have to study for the next few weeks. I’m about to get my diploma. After that I’ll try to solve the whole driver thing (get sound, network, etc working)

hey guys sorry after trying the same thing on my laptop it went further through the process and i noticed it was iatkos v4.0 so i managed to find iatkos v1.0i now i have tried this version on my pc and when i type -v my pc just restarts

Hi,
When I’m in command prompt nad type in: bcdedit /copy {current} /d ���Mac OS X���, it says “A description for the new entry must be specified” I thought that this could be normal so continiued, but I can’t find the GUID for mac os x, when I type in the second command, it comes up with Windows Boot Manager and some details and then Widnows Boot Loader and details “Windows Vista Home Premium ”

I go this to work (finally) using a combination of two different guides (I installed 10.5.2). I used this guide for the dual boot, and it has worked perfectly. So far, the only issues I’ve run into are that I can’t use my laptop’s display, I have to hook up an external monitor to use OS X, I can’t get OS X to recognize my PC’s wifi hardware.

When I installed os x 10.5.2 and vista on my laptop, I had to connect an external monitor any time I wanted to use os x. For some reason, I was only getting a blue screen. If any one else is having this problem, the way I fixed it was by reinstalling os x, and selecting “customize” at the install screen. There, you can select video drivers. I installed os x with the right drivers for my chipset (Intel GMA 950 for Acer Aspire 5610). This solved the problem. I now have a working, portable os x and vista dual boot laptop. The wlan card still isn’t working on os x, but I’m still working on fixing that.

Hi i’m new installing Mac OS.. so i have no idea wha to do..
my pc contains a cpu Quad Core 2.6GHz 6600, mothrboard asus P5K, 2 GB RAM DDR2, for graphics an ati radeon 3870 and 2 hard drives 500GB each. As i read above a made an unallocated part in my primary disk to dual boot Mac n Vista. I have also the DVD iAtkos V1.0 so i rebooted my pc to start from the dvd..pressed f8 and -v as i read.. but many lines later it stucks and says “STILL WAITING FOR DEVICE” has anyone any idea??
thanks a lot..

Hi i���m new installing Mac OS.. so i have no idea wha to do..
my pc contains a cpu Quad Core 2.6GHz 6600, mothrboard asus P5K, 2 GB RAM DDR2, for graphics an ati radeon 3870 and 2 hard drives 500GB each. As i read above a made an unallocated part in my primary disk to dual boot Mac n Vista. I have also the DVD iAtkos V1.0 so i rebooted my pc to start from the dvd..pressed f8 and -v as i read.. but many lines later it stucks and says ���STILL WAITING FOR ROOT DEVICE��� has anyone any idea??
thanks a lot.. sorry for posting twice but i forgot the ROOT word

hi there, i got the file and burned the image, but when i restart and boot it from the cd, then press f8 and type -v, it shows 2 lines and then goes back to the first line (press any key to install mac os x or press f8 for more options). ive tried doing it again but it does the same thing. i went back to windows and tried it through microsoft virtual pc and it did the same thing. then i thought that it might be the burnt cd so i tried capturing the actual image. same thing. is this a common problem or is there a problem with the image?

I have a Gateway M-6846 laptop running Windows Vista Hom Premium with SP1. The RAM is 4 gB and the hard Drive is about 320 GB. tis a 64 bit OS and has a Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83 GHz 1.83 Ghz processor. I also have the two installation disks for 10.5.4 OS X. what sould I do? Any body? plz resopond ASAP

I just tried Leo4All (I think it was v3, though I’m not sure) and it fails at roughly the same place (NTFS driver, loading the login screen). Could it be something I’m not installing that I need to install?

hi
i hav vista home premium preinstalled on my laptop. it has configuration – 2gb ram, 2.4ghz, 256 nvidia 8600GT. AFTER booing frm cd containing iatkosv.01 .i did as u told . since i hav vista installed on c drive .should i shrink the volume frm c drive or my other drive d .also tell me after shrinking how to make it unallocatted . i am not able to do it. once it is done clicking on disk utility does not show any drive , so i hav to quit the installation. EMAIL ME AT MY EMAIL ADDRESS
HOPE U REPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
THANXX
DANISH

I have followed this guide to a T. I am running Vista Ultimate 64-bit on a Toshiba Satellite laptop with an AMD Turionx64 processor running at 1.9 Ghz with a 200G HD, and 4G of RAM. I patched the .iso with the .ppf, burned it to a dvd and booted to it. I have a 20G unallocated partition set up on my HD. It will not see the Volume. Any thoughts? It is 1.0i.

I’ve a problem!
I boot from the DVD as I’m told and everything works. The text scolls and after that a grey screen with that Apple sign appears. After that the machine reboots and everything starts from the beginning. What can I do?

I typed -v and it ends with saying something like use only one style. I tried to boot it without typing -v, and it shows the Apple and the loading, but so far I’ve waited for an hour and it’s still loading, also I realized the boot disk isn’t being read.

I’ve downloaded the iAtkos v1.0 and tried installing leopard, everything works fine, but i keep receiving the unable to mount disk /dev/d0s1 warning. When i click on the Disk Utility i am not able to see any volumes or disks on the left part? I have a 230 GB disk drive and Windows vista installed. I have 20 GB of unallocated space for Leopard. Any clues why i can see my volumes or disks. Could it have something to do with graphics card? Thanks!

I used leo4all but v2 this worked for me without problems on my satellite pro, but you will need a bootloader

I used disk dir v10 find this on mant torrent sites

my advise to you is when you get to the point were it ask you which drivers to use if yours are not there ! or if there is only 1 or 2 things that your system has, there is a good chance its not going to work,

I would check 1st and if your on a desktop think about an upgrade that will give you what the Mac OS is looking for.

i.e. wifi cards, ati,radeon cards that sort of thing coz if there not going to work there is no point trying to do this

i had the chain booting error all the time.
i fixed the problem 4 me, but now when i try to turn into mac, my pc simlpy restarts and thats all …. i��m now trying to install mac without any patches and drivers but i think that nothing will change …. lets see …
if somebody can help me pls answer me!

ok, the install without anything works better … but i get a screen that says: “please restart your computer blah blah blah, hold the power button etc….”
now i��m confused … well pls help me if there is anyone with a solution!

I installed iAtkos v4i just fine and i know its working but I am unable to boot it. I followed what you did in the command prompt and it said it was successful but when I checked where the bootloader’s path was its targeted towards the wrong partition. How do I fix this???

Hello, i want to install leopard on my asus machine.
Everything goes perfect untill selecting the HardDriver (i shrink the partion and i have 12gb unalocated space), but leopard don’t find any hard drive.
i search and i’ve been told that i musy change the setting for ahci in Bios, but unfortunatley i didin’t find the option.
i hope you could tell me what to do…
thenx a lot.

hiya all,!
i have an problem,
i have run into the winloader.exe thingy,
i put my vista dvd in the drive an restarted my machine.
he then loads the dvd, but i only gety to see ‘install vista’ nowhere is writtin’ ‘repair’ or ‘fix problem’ help me what do i do?
i cant boot into vista neither in mac,
i need my computer hard for school man 28 october ( 2 days left) will my school start and i need to use the computer very hard man plz help me yaar!

I installed iATKOS v2.0 on my PC and success for the first step.My problem is why my PC won’t boot if there no DVD installer of iATKOS on my DVD ROM? but it can boot if I inserted my iATKOS DVD on my DVD ROM.

then I follow your step to make multiboot of Mac and Vista, the menu appear but if I choose Mac,it boot on Vista not the Mac.
Please give Me a detail instruction because I’m a beginner..

ok i have v1 of atkios and when i go to boot from the disk and type -v it gets though like four lines and brings me back to Boot: and i type -v again and it does the same thing can anyone help do i need a more current version?

Hey can someone help me, when i get to the step to format the previously created volume as MAC OSX Journaled Extended, i DONT see the drive i shrunk. I just see my original HD and the HP Recovery that were always there.

my computer isn’t even booting into the iAtkos image….I burned it onto a dvd and it was 500KB so i tried doing it with macdrive 7 and it worked (even though there were no files on the DVD when i opened it, it said 2.2GB used) where did i go wrong?

Hi, I have a question. I want to make sure that I don’t screw up my computer from this. If I follow the steps and something goes wrong and I need to re-install vista, can I just use a system recovery to a time before I started this or do I need to use the vista dvd which I do not have? And if I use the dvd will any of my files be erased? Also I have a AMD Turion x2 64 processor, will this work with the iATKOS.V1. or do i need a different one? Thanks.

Hi, I was wounder before I did any of this if something goes wrong and I can’t boot into Vista, could I just use the system restore or do I need to use the dvd? If I use the dvd will any of my files be erased? Also will the iATKOS_v1.0i work with an AMD Turion X2 64 processor or do I need to get a different version or a patch for it?
Thanks, Steve

ANSWER FOR 3 PARTITIONS
if u have 3 or more partitiions (c:\ vista, d:\documents, e:\MAC OS, f:\ubuntu).. u have install in the same order, first Vista, Second MAC OSX, and the last UBuntu (or other linux).

i’m using vista ultimate n home premium in 1 hdd(4 partitions)
oh, and my iAKTOS v1.0 is 2.44gb in size(referring to computer management b’coz the drive in my computer shows its size is 542kb only. Is that any problem with that?

Nope, that all sounds right 2 me it should show up at about 500kb in my computer, there’s lots of errors than can happen. When i tried v1.0 it said i have a hardware incompatibility issue then when i tried 4.1 everytime i boot in -v mode it hangs or in gui it said please reboot. I’m going to try 2.0i, my final attempt…

I have an HP DV6736NR laptop.
2Gig Ram
2?0 Gig HD (too lazy to look)
Dual boot between Vista and 7
AMD processor
Every time I boot into iAtkos DVD (4.1 I think) it can’t find my HD
I have the unallocated space, but it still can’t find it. I tried mounting it and none of the commands worked. Is there something I am doing wrong?

i have tried this guide wice and followed tyheparts wih command prompt 5 times.
nowhve on my selection screen, Windows Vista and 5 Mac OS X’s, none of which work
They all lead me into Vista,
I Have two questions,
1. How do i get rid of all those Mac OS X links which dont work, and also do u have any ideas as to why it doesnt work? Thanks

Hi,
I have Dual-Boot on my Machine, with MediaDirect (Dell’s Media Software). I have a 48GB Partition s unallocated – initally it was under an extended partition. I then changed/moved my partition that the 48GB is a partition in itself that is unallocated.

Problem: Mac OS X Disk Utilities can not see the 48.5GB unallocated. It can see 4 partitions, 47MB (assume something with MediaDirect), 200GB (NTFS-XP HOME), 50GB (NTFS-VISTA), 2GB (MediaDirect). Hard drive reads as 298 (320GB Drive) on the Disk Utilities Page, but I don’t see an unallocated space which I have left for Mac OS X.

Hi, I’ve been scrolling through the posts and have seen a few things on usb external drives, though i only went through the first 250 posts I didn’t see anything on whether just installing on a new 2nd internal drive would work. Then you could just boot from whichever drive for whichever os u wanted to run. ??? Was just wondering if that was possible

I just tried using v2.0i and it didn’t work…the computer just crashes less than a second after the gray logo comes up…If i use the kalyway image, will i be able to follow the same instructions? Or does kalyway not work for dual booting?

HELP!!!!THIS IS SSSSOOO FRUSTRATING!!! I shrunk my c drive and have 7gb sitting there it says unallocated but IT DOESNT SHOW UP IN DISK UTILITY WHEN INSTALLING!!!!!!!!! HELP PLEASE!!! I’ve searched google and read the comments above, called compaq and IT family members!!! HELP!!! UGH i’m running vista on a compaq persario sr5050nx please help!!

This error comes for atleast iATKOS v1.0 r3 and i think r2 too.
The actual error is that the boot file for mac is not there on hard disk. That’s because Darwin bootloader has not been installed.
To install it you need to choose customize option in the window having Install button.
Now choose that darwin bootloader from the options. There are actually 2 bootloaders I choosed the second one ECI(not sure about the exact name) and installed it. And from the next time your system will start booting from harddisk no more DVD required.

Ok everyone, this is a great idea but everyone is having problems with it. I found these guides on how to get tiger and leopard to work as a virtual computer. This way is a lot safer and I actually got it to work for tiger…I’m still trying to get leopard to work, I just did something wrong the last time I tried but I should get it to work.

For what it’s worth, I tried to “adapt” this guide to install iAtkos V2.0i into a USB HArddisk (MyBook Essential). Installation went fine, everything OK, but I wanted to try out and used the boot menu to “boot from USB”. I got until the nice white screen from Apple, but then just small squares on my screen, no reaction at all. I don’t know in which disk I should change the MBR with fdisk, because I surely don’t want (yet) to destroy my Windoze partition, so…

Any suggestions (I have the feeling I’m so very close to get it, but…)
?
My system is a DELL XPS420, external disk a MyBook Essential.

Maybe as a help to some (Brandon and others): The unallocated partition did not work, I defined it as a RAW in Windoze and then reformatted it as mac journaled extended with the disk utility from the iATKOS 2.0i installer. At the end I failed somewhere else, but maybe that works for some.

thanks for the guide…
i was having problems initially.but installed it correctly.but now i cant get into internet and running all other stuffs.please tell me where can i find all the needed drivers for it.

hi everyone.
i use this guide to install leopard in one partition of my disk, everything goes well, i guess… but anyone knows about some patch for try to activate the enthrenet card… i know that the sound and wifi card doesn��t work no matter what you do… i have a gateway mx6943m…

Hi I would like to know if I can do on my HP Pavilion t3717.fr with 1GB Intel Pentium 2.8GHz Windows Vista Ultimate
As I’m french I have a few male and especially write a follow even if there is the translation.

use ���arrow up or down��� keys to select the startup volume.
Hd(31,1) iATKOS v1.01

Press Enter to start up Darwin/X86 with no options or you can:
type -v and press Enter to startup with diagnostic messages
type ? And press Enter to learn about advanced startup options
boot:_
I fill in -v and enter then:

For all of you having trouble with your unallocated space not showing up…Format the unallocated space to FAT32, then when you boot the leopard disk, go to the disk utilities, and select the FAT32 partition, and erase it. Make sure that you set it to format the partition to MAC OS Journaled Extended though, before you erase it. Exit the disk utility after that, and hit the continue button!
If anyone has solved the problem of booting into the grey screen and getting a circle with a line through it(like a warning sign) plz help me!! Thanx!

Hi, i tried iATKOS v1.0i and v1.0i r2 with no success:( Then i tried iATKOS v5i. Well the installation process went well. I was able to log in to Vista as well. I executed the commands “bcdedit /copy…” etc with no problem. When i start the system and select ‘MAC OS’, it tries to load the system but then a pop up appears (MAC style with a power button logo in the background) saying “You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button for several seconds or press Restart button.”
Another thing i want to mention: behind the pop up there are some commands. one of them (1st on top of screen) says
‘panic(cpu 0 caller 0x1FBA6C65): “unsupported cpu\n”@/SourceCache/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement -39.2/cstatecpu.c:632′
‘debugger called: ‘

Hi i have tried to boot from the iATKOS DVD that I created from the download and when the Darwin Bootloader comes up i press F8 and then -v but the scroling text stops after it initalizes succesfully I have got an Acer Travelmate 2410 with an Intel Celeron Processor with 2GB of RAM 40GB Hard Drive Intel GMA 900 Graphics Card etc. Can you please help me thanks.

hey i made the partitions and i did the commands but i only get to
USING ACPI RSDP revision 2 found at 0x000fe020 and then it stops
i have a hp pavillion dv5
with 3 gb of memory and a amd Turion(tm) X2 Dual-Core Mobile Rm-70 processor

To whom this may concern:
I am trying to install leapord via Kalyway. I press f8 and do the -v thing, but then it goes all the way done then it stops it shows a blinking box and i can type on the blinking box.
ANYONE WHO CAN HELP ME HERE IS MY EMAIL:sexy_sarah1492@yahoo.com

Just a note (at least in 5i), if you leave the partition in Windows as “unallocated” like the tutorial says, it won’t be usable in the osx86 disk utility. After you created the unallocated space, right click “create simple volume” (or something) and give it a drive letter, and don’t format it. It should now say primary partition or something, but have no file system. Select that in the osc86 disk utility and format it as osx journaled extended and continue as instructed

Hi i have tried to boot from the iATKOS DVD that I created from the download and when the Darwin Bootloader comes up i press F8 and then -v but the scroling text stops when it get to the bit where it says who made it. i hope you can help me

im having trouble finding the unallocated partition through the Disk Utility, I shrinked the volume which has my Windows on it and it showed as unallocated, just as it should do, but on the Disk Utility it on shows the disk0s1 which is my windows vista partition, doesn’t show the unallocated 60GB that i created.

Does anyone know why this might be?
Would really appreciate it if someone could help.

I installed it on my external hd, but when i try to boot it dosent work at all it just sits there with the flashing cursor until i turn it off (if i go and choose to boot from usb device) but if i click on OSx like before it starts to boot it will just load vista again

Works for me one Dell Inspiron E1505. The tutorial is inaccurate and it cost me a few hours extra.

First, you have to allocate the Unallocated space to something, otherwise you won’t be able to format. So free space shouldn’t really be free space.

Second, Better to remove the partition that has EISA configuration and the Recovery partition and merge them into one single partition. I used Linux for that. VISTA seemed unable to remove the EISA partition

Third, when in Darwin during the installation if Info says disk 0 partition 2 then in Darwin utility use disk as 1. The tutorial is wrong (unless it’s different for different hardware), otherwise you’ll get something like “hdiutil: unmount: ���s2��� failed to unmount due to error 2″ and usually along with that, your partition table is irrecoverably messed up. I had to restore using clonezilla

Fourth, the tutorial says in Darwin (after installation is done), use “flag 1″ make sure you change that depending on where your windows installation resides. On my computer after removing recovery and EISA partitions, the Leopard was installed on partition 1 while Vista on partition 3 so I typed “flag 3″

Make sure you clone your hard drive since errors will mess up your partitions and it was unrecoverable for me using the Windows CD. I used clonezilla to duplicate my hard drive before messing with it.
Problems:

It can take a number of boots before it successfully boots. I am not sure what is causing it to do that. With the -v I see there’s SIGFPE. It will boot fine once every couple times, but once in I don’t see problems.

Never use Sleep or shutdown. Only restart works for me. Sleep made my system unbootable, I had to disconnect the battery.

Wireless drops quite frequently.

Karthik, please update your tutorial!!! but definitely thanks for the other correct instructions

Hello,
First of all thanks for a great tutorial, and i thought that it came all the way through for me but alas i havent been able to boot OS X yet. The problem is when i reboot computer even though it shows OS X as a boot option it does not boot it but vista instead, do you know what might be the problem? Is there any chance i might have messed up something somewhere? maybe the GUID thing? if so i’m not sure how to do it exactly, can someone elaborate please?
Regards
Taleh

KC is an asshole. As far as I can tell you’re doing this for love, not money so if he wants support perhaps he should hire a professional. I haven’t tried this yet, but I think this talk-through rocks and I can’t wait to try it.

A message from the stranger for anyone else who feels this doesn’t meet their needs: disconnect from the Internet and work it out yourself, you ungrateful turd.

Even i had same problem, i made the partion primary by booting through Vista DVD and then selecting inatall operating system , then quit Vista install. now i have come back to OSX install and it did recognize….

I have a had some prolems with this. It boots up fine and i hit -v. It thens is doing it thing but stops at “Still waiting for root device”. My comp has NVIDIA nForce 430, AMD Athlon X2 4800+, NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

It is NOT a good solution!! If you attempt to install this, it will not work. This is only for a specified hardware and is not for all hardware. If you do suceed, you’re just lucky. If you suceed but needs to REINSTALL vista, youre just like my friend. I failed and I needed to reinstall vista.

K, i have a problem…
When i boot into the program. I pressed F8 and then typed -v
it goes for like five seconds, stops at
Loading HFS+ file: [mach_kernel] from 4230450
Then it takes me back to where i have to push F8
How do i fix that?

hey, I used iATKOS 5i and everything went fine until the end. Like other, I just get the apple logo and the loader circle until after a while, I circle with a line through it shows up. I’ve looked through all the comments but have not been able to find a resolution.

I’ve tried -v but the screen hangs after the Firewire cannot find secure…. yadda yadda and then it says “still waiting for root”

Hey, i was wondering how you can uninstall leopard? i want to try it, but I wanna make sure that I can remove it and have my old computer back the way it was before i tried installing mac. If i ever decide that i dont like leopard, how do i uninstall it? thanks in advance

I followed the guide, half of the HDD for Vista and half for Mac, but was not able to setup a boot option at first and start the computer in any OS.

I then re-installed Vista. It shows me only one partition :C, the partition for MAC being invisible. I can see it though if I use Disk management.

If I start from the MAC DVD, I can also see the 2 partitions, one is :C and the other I called MAC.

I redid the bcdedit commands which gave me the dual option at start-up. When I choose Vista, I boot with no problems. When I choose Mac OS X, the dual screen comes back again. I pressed the F8 key, selected the partition for Mac and pressed Enter as indicated in the guide, but I still can’t boot in Mac.

“hey, I used iATKOS 5i and everything went fine until the end. Like other, I just get the apple logo and the loader circle until after a while, I circle with a line through it shows up. I���ve looked through all the comments but have not been able to find a resolution.

I���ve tried -v but the screen hangs after the Firewire cannot find secure���. yadda yadda and then it says ���still waiting for root���
”

i’ve tried everything and it still doesn’t work. i have a brand new dell inspiron 1318 with nothing on it. i deleted the restore partition that dell puts on and tried to then boot off the leopard disk, but when i do that it says “non-system disk….press any key” and when i hit keys it just beeps and beeps and doesnt go anywhere. I am not using a burned copy of leopard, I am using the actual leopard cd from a friend’s mac. is that the problem?

i’ve tried everything and it still doesn’t work. i have a brand new dell inspiron 1318 with nothing on it. i deleted the restore partition that dell puts on and tried to then boot off the leopard disk, but when i do that it says “non-system disk….press any key” and when i hit keys it just beeps and beeps and doesnt go anywhere. I am not using a burned copy of leopard, I am using the actual leopard cd from a friend’s mac. is that the problem?